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Al-Qaida Chief Urges Attacks On 'Criminal' America
Post Date: 2011-08-15 19:57:05 by Brian S
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CAIRO (AP) — Al-Qaida's new leader called on his followers to continue to fight the United States despite the killing of Osama bin Laden, calling America a "criminal country" that has corrupted the world. In a video posted on militant websites Sunday, Ayman al-Zawahri also said the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia have provided opportunities for the group to spread its message. The 12-minute message is the third from the Egyptian-born al-Zawahri since he was named al-Qaida's new leader in June following the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. commandos in Pakistan. Wearing a white robe and turban with an automatic rifle at his side, al-Zawahri said the Muslim jihad, ...
U.S. refuses Taiwan request for new jets: report
Post Date: 2011-08-15 18:13:43 by Thunderbird
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The United States has refused Taiwan's request for 66 new Lockheed Martin F-16C/D fighter jets which China had warned Washington would risk inflaming tensions between the two big powers, Defense News reported, citing a Taiwan defense official. Taiwan has repeatedly asked Washington to agree to sell the advanced F-16 fighter jets, citing the need to counter the growing military strength of China, which deems the island a breakaway province that must eventually accept reunification, by force if necessary. Laura Siebert, Lockheed Martin's spokeswoman for the F-16 program, had no immediate comment on the Defense News report. Neither Washington nor Taipei has made any formal ...
Ahmadinejad Says Iran Nuclear Plant to Start on Time
Post Date: 2011-08-15 13:19:00 by Brian S
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Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant will start on time and is not being delayed because of disagreements with Russia, RT television reported, citing an interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “I have already talked to President Dmitry Medvedev, who told me there is no obstacle to the plant launching its operations at the scheduled time,” Ahmadinejad was cited as saying by the state-run, English-language station. Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear holding company, has been finishing work on the 1,000-megawatt Bushehr station and has agreed to supply uranium to power the reactor and remove spent fuel. The project, which has faced numerous delays, was halted ...
WASHINGTON — One is up, one is out, one is in, and one remains the perceived frontrunner. By Andrea Melendez, The Des Moines Register, via Gannett First female winner: Rep. Michele Bachmann won Saturday's straw poll in the Republican presidential ra
Post Date: 2011-08-14 21:59:59 by buckeroo
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Asian stocks rose following the longest series of weekly losses since June after U.S. retail sales increased by the most in four months and Japan’s second- quarter gross domestic product beat economist estimates. Toyota Motor Corp. (7203), the largest carmaker by market value, climbed 2.4 percent in Tokyo. BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP), the world’s largest mining company, gained 3.4 percent amid optimism metals demand will pick up. Melbourne-based Ansell Ltd. (ANN), the world’s No. 1 maker of surgical gloves, jumped 4.3 percent after full- year net income beat analyst targets. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index rose 0.8 percent to 122.94 as of 9:49 a.m. in Tokyo, with about 10 stocks ...
Iraqi Leader Backs Syria, With a Nudge From Iran
Post Date: 2011-08-14 20:55:41 by Brian S
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BAGHDAD — As leaders in the Arab world and other countries condemn President Bashar al-Assad’s violent crackdown on demonstrators in Syria, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq has struck a far friendlier tone, urging the protesters not to “sabotage” the state and hosting an official Syrian delegation. Mr. Maliki’s support for Mr. Assad has illustrated how much Iraq’s position in the Middle East has shifted toward an axis led by Iran. And it has also aggravated the fault line between Iraq’s Shiite majority, whose leaders have accepted Mr. Assad’s account that Al Qaeda is behind the uprising, and the Sunni minority, whose leaders have condemned ...
American Congressman: US Economic Woes Won’t Affect Israel
Post Date: 2011-08-14 20:40:50 by Brian S
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The current economic crisis in the US will have no impact on US financial assistance to Israel, US Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) said Wednesday. Hoyer, the second-highest ranked Democrat in the House of Representatives, is leading a delegation of 26 US Democratic congressmen on a tour of Israel and the Palestinian Authority sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation, a charitable organization affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Hoyer said he wanted to “make it clear” that the financial challenges confronting the US will not “have any adverse effect on America’s determination to meet its promise to Israel in the form of aid ...
Zionist 'Flotilla' For Jonathan Pollard, Gilad Schalit
Post Date: 2011-08-14 18:41:29 by Brian S
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Hundreds of Jewish youth from around the world set sail Sunday in a “Blue and White flotilla.” They aimed to protest the phenomenon of pro-Hamas flotillas to Gaza, while also showing support for kidnapped soldier Gilad Schalit and prisoner Jonathan Pollard.Arutz Sheva's Yoni Kempinski was there to speak to the young activists about their mission.During their sea voyage, from Ashkelon to Ashdod, the youth released balloons in the direction of Gaza. They changed the name of one ship to Gilad Schalit.
Pakistan Let China See Crashed US "Stealth" Copter
Post Date: 2011-08-14 18:24:37 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - Pakistan gave China access to the previously unknown U.S. "stealth" helicopter that crashed during the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May despite explicit requests from the CIA not to, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The disclosure, if confirmed, is likely to further shake the U.S.-Pakistan relationship, which has been improving slightly after hitting its lowest point in decades following the killing of bin Laden. During the raid, one of two modified Blackhawk helicopters, believed to employ unknown stealth capability, malfunctioned and crashed, forcing the commandos to abandon it. "The U.S. now has information that Pakistan, particularly ...
World Bank: Markets Heading To New Danger Zone
Post Date: 2011-08-14 13:40:18 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - The loss of market confidence in economic leadership in key countries like the United States and Europe coupled with a fragile economic recovery have pushed markets into a new danger zone, something that policymakers have to take seriously, the head of the World Bank said on Sunday. Speaking at the Asia Society dinner in Sydney, Robert Zoellick also said the global economy was going through a multi-speed recovery, with developing countries now the source of growth and opportunity. "What's happened in the past couple of weeks is there is a convergence of some events in Europe and the United States that has led many market participants to lose confidence in economic ...
Ahmadinejad: Nuclear Weapons A Waste Of Money
Post Date: 2011-08-14 13:20:42 by Brian S
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MOSCOW — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called nuclear weapons a waste of money Sunday as he prepared to receive a top Russian security official for crisis mediation talks. Ahmadinejad said he was looking to build a closer relationship with Moscow and expecting to see the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant -- Iran's first -- start producing electricity next year, after many delays. He brushed aside suggestions that his previous meetings with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev were clouded by disagreements and said the two neighbours could offer "joint solutions" to global problems. "Nuclear weapons are the means of the previous century," ...
UN Climate Report Fails to Capture Arctic Ice Thinning Reality: MIT
Post Date: 2011-08-14 09:36:35 by buckeroo
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The United Nations' most recent global climate report "fails to capture trends in Arctic sea-ice thinning and drift, and in some cases substantially underestimates these trends," says a new research from MIT. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, released in 2007, forecasts an ice-free Arctic summer by the year 2100. However, the Arctic sea ice may be thinning four times faster than predicted, according to Pierre Rampal and his research team of MIT'S Department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS). The research team's findings will be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans. After comparing ...
Does Scandinavian Socialism Work?
Post Date: 2011-08-12 20:23:40 by CZ82
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Does Scandinavian Socialism Work? Posted by Steven Plaut Bio [5; on Aug 12th, 2011 There is nothing like a good stock market bear run to get all the media wags out and chattering about the “death of capitalism.” Invariably the same folks take to lecturing the rest of us about how the only hope for humankind is “social democracy” in the form of Scandinavian-style “socialism.” It would be hard to understate the extent of romanticizing and fantasy concerning Scandinavia’s economic and social systems to be found among the Western “intellectual classes,” and that clearly includes the left wing of the Democrat Party. Scandinavians themselves are ...
The middle class 'rioters' revealed: The millionaire's daughter, the aspiring musician and the organic chef all in the dock [So Much for Demands of "Social Justice"]
Post Date: 2011-08-12 16:59:27 by Capitalist Eric
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Poverty, social exclusion, poor education - these are just some of the theories put forward to explain the recent rioting. Yet shockingly, among those in the dock accused of looting are a millionaire's grammar school daughter, a ballet student and an organic chef. A law student, university graduate, a musician and an opera steward also said to have taken part. They are just some of the youngsters from comfortable middle-class backgrounds who have been charged with criminality.Some of them were arrested at the scene, others handed themselves in after seeing their faces in photographs and on video. Whatever the reasons for their alleged trouble-making, it is clear that their future ...
Egypt Must Revise Relations With U.S. And Israel: ‘Iran-Egypt-Turkey Triangle Can Bring Stability In The Region’
Post Date: 2011-08-12 15:07:19 by Brian S
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CAIRO -- The leading Egyptian intellectual called on the Egypt’s interim government to seek more proximity with Iran and Turkey instead of following the directives prescribed by the United States and Israel. Speaking with Iran’s Fars News agency in Cairo, Fahmy Howeidy said, “In order to create a free and democratic Egypt, the interim government should try to listen to the demands of the people and to keep more distance from the West and its offspring in the region, Israel.” Warning about U.S. efforts to distort the popular Egyptian revolution, the top Egyptian thinker and writer said, “The formation of the triangle of power between Iran, Egypt and Turkey can pave ...
Israeli protesters demand end to staggering wealth gap
Post Date: 2011-08-12 09:05:09 by go65
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They are mainstays of the society pages and glossy magazines. Some are praised for the hospital wings they have built, others are gossiped about for their quirks. But these days, the handful of wealthy families who dominate the Israeli economy are assuming a new role: one of the chief targets of the tent-city protesters who have shaken Israel in the past month. The “tycoons,” as they are known even in Hebrew, are suddenly facing enraged scrutiny as middle-class families complain that a country once viewed as an example of intimate equality today has one of the largest gaps between rich and poor in the industrialized world. The tent-city protesters, who have shifted the public ...
The Sun Never Sets On The British Welfare System
Post Date: 2011-08-10 19:27:11 by CZ82
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The Sun Never Sets On The British Welfare System by Ann Coulter, 08/10/2011 Those of you following the barbaric rioting in Britain will not have failed to notice that a sizable proportion of the thugs are white, something not often seen in this country. Not only that, but in a triumph of feminism, a lot of them are girls. Even the "disabled" (according to the British benefits system) seem to have miraculously overcome their infirmities to dash out and steal a few TVs. Congratulations, Britain! You've barbarized your citizenry, without regard to race, gender or physical handicap! With a welfare system far more advanced than the United States, the British have achieved ...
Killing Of 3 Muslims Lays Bare British Divisions; Locals Decry White Police, Black Attackers
Post Date: 2011-08-10 17:51:36 by Brian S
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BIRMINGHAM, England — With police nowhere to be seen, the Muslims of a poor neighborhood armed themselves with bricks and stones, clubs and cricket bats to fend off marauding gangs. Their midnight stand in Birmingham saved a humble row of shops and red-brick mosque from the looters’ grasp, but at a terrible cost: three lives lost when a carload of rioters rammed into shop defenders. Wednesday’s deaths have laid bare racial tensions underlying this week’s riots in England. Birmingham Muslims pack a community hall to tell the white commanders of the murder investigation that the police don’t care about protecting them. In the streets outside, hard-faced young men ...
North, South Korea Exchange Fire Along Tense Western Sea Border
Post Date: 2011-08-10 17:21:00 by Brian S
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Reporting from Seoul— The two Koreas exchanged fire Wednesday along the tense western sea border, a face-off reportedly started when North Korean launched three artillery shells that landed near the disputed maritime line in the Yellow Sea, officials said. South Korea responded by firing three artillery shots toward North Korea's sea border. No one was injured in the volleys, officials said. North Korea's shells landed near the so-called Northern Limit Line, according to military officials in Seoul. South Korea responded about an hour later with its three-shot volley. The exchange took place shortly after noon in an area of ocean that in November brought the last lethal ...
US Troubled By Rising Anti-Americanism In Egypt
Post Date: 2011-08-10 15:33:07 by Brian S
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The Obama administration is expressing concern about what it says is a tide of anti-Americanism in Egypt. The State Department says criticism of U.S. aid and motives as the country transitions to democracy are inaccurate and unfair. The State Department has raised the matter with Egyptian officials. Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland called personal attacks on the U.S. ambassador to Egypt "unacceptable." Nuland says Washington firmly supports Egypt's democratic transition and will continue to. The administration has been surprised by a rise in anti-American sentiment in the Mideast. Some in Egypt have accused the United States of interference and fanning instability since the ...
Sorry, Can’t Stop Laughing: Iran Advises British Not To Use Violence Against ‘Protesters’
Post Date: 2011-08-10 15:33:03 by Happy Quanzaa
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From the Tehran Times: Let me teach you something about human rights… TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ramin Mehmanparast on Tuesday advised the British government to exercise self-restraint and refrain from using violence against protesters. According to Reuters, the violence erupted late on Saturday in London’s northern Tottenham district when a peaceful protest over the police shooting of Mark Duggan, a black man, two days earlier was followed by outbreaks of looting and arson. A number of protesters have also been arrested. Mehmanparast called on the British government to refrain from taking any violent action when dealing with protesters and to take ...
Al-Qaeda and Affiliates Remain Determined to Bleed America Dry
Post Date: 2011-08-10 12:51:40 by Brian S
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One of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda’s goals was to destroy America economically by waging a “War of a thousand cuts.” The goal was to cause as much economic pain as was possible. No attack better exemplified this than the 9/11 attacks which struck right at the heart of New York City, the financial capital of the world. Not only was the attack symbolic, but the markets tanked, exacerbating the recession that plagued America. Additionally, the US began to engage in a global effort to fight terrorism, much like a bull in a China shop. Afghanistan, initially fought to find those responsible for the 9/11 attacks, slowly morphed into a nation building effort in a fruitless ...
Does AIPAC Have Only Two Major Donors? Mystery unfolds as members of Congress head to Israel...
Post Date: 2011-08-10 12:50:11 by Brian S
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A large congressional delegation is heading for Israel. During three weeks of recess, 55 Republicans and 26 Democrats will enjoy “educational” trips funded by the American Israel Education Foundation, a tax-exempt nonprofit located in the same Washington, D.C., building as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Absent AIPAC’s influence on pro-Israel campaign contributors, members of Congress would probably skip international travel this year to meet the pressing needs of their districts or to venture to places of actual importance to the U.S., such as Europe, China, or Latin America. Instead, because AIPAC is always watching members of Congress, our ...
Uk Riots: More Than 1,000 Arrests Strain Legal System To The Limit
Post Date: 2011-08-10 11:33:12 by Brian S
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Courts have sat through the night to deal with criminal charges from four nights of looting and rioting in English cities. In London many of the accused are thought to have been remanded on bail with curfews. Extra court sittings were being arranged elsewhere as David Cameron gave carte blanche to the police on manpower and tactics, including the use of water cannon. This was despite comments on Tuesday from the home secretary, Theresa May, playing down the likelihood of their use. The prime minister said he expected anyone convicted of violent disorder to go to prison. More than 1,100 people have been arrested in centres including London, Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham, Bristol and ...
Obama planning to call for Syrian leader Assad's exit
Post Date: 2011-08-10 03:52:39 by socalv8
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US President Barack Obama is reportedly planning to call on Syria's embattled leader Bashar al-Assad to step down. The White House is planning on demanding Assad's departure and slapping the regime with new sanctions targeted at individuals in the regime and Syrian government financ, the Telegraph reports. An administration official did not comment on the report, but stressed that 'Syria would be a better place without Assad'. "We've previously said Syria would be a better place without Assad, that we believe his regime will be left in the past, and that Assad is on his way out," the administration official said. "We've also previously ...
Obama’s AA+ presidency
Post Date: 2011-08-10 03:41:06 by socalv8
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A few months ago, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner predicted with unshakable confidence that there was “no risk” of a downgrade of U.S. debt. In fact, he argued, “things are better than they’ve been if you want to think about the prospects for improving our long-term fiscal position.” In his self-assured cluelessness, Geithner reflected the president he serves. Upon taking office, President Barack Obama gravely misread the historic moment. He has brought us to a dangerous pass where a few slips — another sharp recession, a spike in interest rates — could bring on another terrifying economic crisis. To borrow his own put-down of Congress during the ...
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