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Putin Says U.S. Is A "Parasite" On Global Economy
Post Date: 2011-08-01 17:51:14 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means "like a parasite" on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets. "They are living beyond their means and shifting a part of the weight of their problems to the world economy," Putin told a Kremlin youth group while touring its summer camp north of Moscow. "They are living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar." President Barack Obama announced a last-ditch deal to cut about $2.4 trillion from the U.S. deficit over a decade, avoid a crushing debt default and stave off the risk ...
Cuba Encourages Capitalism While Marking the 58th Anniversary of the Start of Communism
Post Date: 2011-08-01 07:27:18 by CZ82
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Cuba Encourages Capitalism While Marking the 58th Anniversary of the Start of Communism By Steve Harrigan, July 29, 2011 When Cuba marked its 58th anniversary of the start of the Communist Revolution this week, a key message from Vice President Jose Machado was that Cubans need to work harder. Machado, 81, who spoke for 25 minutes while President Raul Castro who attended the ceremony sat silent, blamed corruption and inertia for Cuba’s economic woes. In past years the holiday was marked by lengthy speeches from Fidel Castro lauding the revolution and attacking the U.S. government. But this year leaders of the island nation of more than 11 million people are trying to encourage ...
Southampton engineers fly the world’s first ‘printed’ aircraft
Post Date: 2011-07-31 19:56:30 by lucysmom
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Engineers at the University of Southampton have designed and flown the world’s first ‘printed’ aircraft, which could revolutionise the economics of aircraft design. The SULSA (Southampton University Laser Sintered Aircraft) plane is an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) whose entire structure has been printed, including wings, integral control surfaces and access hatches. It was printed on an EOS EOSINT P730 nylon laser sintering machine, which fabricates plastic or metal objects, building up the item layer by layer. No fasteners were used and all equipment was attached using ‘snap fit’ techniques so that the entire aircraft can be put together without tools in minutes. ...
New American Ambassador To Try To Improve Israelis' View Of U.S.
Post Date: 2011-07-31 12:42:39 by Brian S
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Dan Shapiro, the new American ambassador to Israel, has two culinary loves. The first is Spam, the preserved lunch meat that comes in a can; its Israeli equivalent is Luf, a dish that should be familiar to anyone who has served in a combat unit here. One urban legend that has made the rounds in the White House tells of a dinner at the official residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. According to legend, Shapiro, who then headed the Middle East division at the U.S. National Security Council, turned to Netanyahu and inquired about his reported fondness for the Spam-type lunch meat served in the IDF. Legend has it that Netanyahu jumped out of his chair in excitement, ...
Pat Buchanan: A Fire Bell in the Night for Norway
Post Date: 2011-07-31 10:45:59 by buckeroo
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"Like a fire bell in the night," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1820, "this momentous question ... awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union." Jefferson was writing of the sudden resurgence of the slavery issue in the debate on Missouri's entry into the Union, as foreshadowing a civil war. The massacre in Oslo, where a terrorist detonated a fertilizer bomb to decapitate the government and proceeded to a youth camp to kill 68 children of Norway's ruling elite, is a fire bell in the night for Europe. For Anders Behring Breivik is no Islamic terrorist. He was born in Norway and chose as his targets, not Muslims whose ...
President Barack Obama takes debt battle to Twitter, loses more than 40,000 followers in one day
Post Date: 2011-07-30 04:07:51 by socalv8
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Obama asked Americans Friday to call, email, and tweet Congressional leaders to “keep the pressure on” lawmakers in hopes of reaching a bipartisan deal to raise the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt limit ahead of an Aug. 2 deadline. Obama’s campaign staff used the @BarackObama Twitter account to post the Twitter handles of tweeting GOP leaders – state by state, tweet by tweet. “Tweet at your Republican legislators and urge them to support a bipartisan compromise to the debt crisis,” Obama’s campaign staff wrote on his account before launching the day-long Twitter campaign. The campaign appears to have served its purpose: Republican Twitter accounts ...
Cataracts, hips, knees and tonsils: NHS begins rationing operations
Post Date: 2011-07-29 18:04:52 by CZ82
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Cataracts, hips, knees and tonsils: NHS begins rationing operations Almost two-thirds of trusts affected as cuts bite By Oliver Wright, Whitehall Editor, Thursday, 28 July 2011 Anne Ball, 71, a retired business consultant: 'I have bilateral cataracts and under the original NHS criteria I was entitled to have at least one of mine treated - but then the West Sussex health authorities decided to change the threshold level to save money' Hip replacements, cataract surgery and tonsil removal are among operations now being rationed in a bid to save the NHS money. Two-thirds of health trusts in England are rationing treatments for "non-urgent" conditions as part of the ...
U.S. Report Recommends Ending Loan Guarantees To Israel At End Of 2011
Post Date: 2011-07-28 12:56:21 by Brian S
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An internal report of the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of State recommends terminating the U.S. loan guarantee program to Israel at the end of 2011. The report, which deals with the performance of the U.S. embassy in Israel, says American diplomats have difficulty mustering support for the Obama administration's policies and implies the embassy failed completely in its PR efforts during the Obama administration. "A fragile Israeli coalition government leans toward the views of its members from the nationalist and religious right, creating a challenge for diplomats seeking to build support for U.S. policies," the report says. The unclassified version ...
Russia Agency Says International Space Station Will Be Sunk Into Pacific Ocean In 2020
Post Date: 2011-07-28 12:25:04 by Brian S
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It’s travelled the equivalent of more than eight round trips to the sun, it’s been constantly occupied for 11 years and it’s cost the U.S. taxpayer billions of dollars to build and maintain. But the International Space Station will reportedly be taken out of orbit and allowed to sink into the Pacific Ocean in 2020 - just like its Russian predecessor, Mir. Russia's space agency announced the decision on Wednesday because the space base that is maintained around 200 miles away from the earth is too ‘complicated’ and ‘heavy’ to leave in orbit. ‘We will be forced to sink the ISS,' Roscosmos deputy head Vitaly Davydov told the agency's ...
Clinton warns she may recommend Obama to veto foreign aid Bill
Post Date: 2011-07-28 02:35:24 by socalv8
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned the lawmakers that she would recommend President Barack Obama to veto a Bill, which imposes aid restrictions on several countries including Pakistan. Ms. Clinton said this in a letter to leadership of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, which last week passed the Foreign Authorization Bill, which among other things requires a certification from the Secretary of State that Pakistan is not supporting terrorist activities. “For Pakistan, the bill toughens the certification criteria for assistance under Kerry-Lugar-Berman Pakistan legislation and removes altogether that law’s waiver authorities,” Ms. Clinton told the ...
Norwegian mass killer claims Greek among associates: Anders Behring Breivik says man from Greece was one of several that reformed Knights Templar
Post Date: 2011-07-27 10:00:32 by Godwinson
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Norwegian mass killer claims Greek among associates Anders Behring Breivik says man from Greece was one of several that reformed Knights Templar Anders Behring Breivik's, the Norwegian man who killed at least 93 people in his homeland on Friday, has claimed that a Greek man was among several people that met in 2002 to reform the Knights Templar. The 32-year-old went on a shooting spree at an island summer camp and bombed central Oslo buildings occupied by Norway's Labour-led government. In a rambling, plagiaristic manifesto posted just before his killing spree began, Breivik says the Knights Templar, a medieval order of crusading warriors, lent modern renown by Dan Brown's ...
Israelis Debate on the Web: Did Norway Get What It Deserved?
Post Date: 2011-07-26 19:33:22 by Jack
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The Norway massacre has touched off a nasty war of words on the Israeli Internet over the meaning of the event and its implications for Israel. And I do mean nasty: Judging by the comments sections on the main Hebrew websites, the main questions under debate seem to be whether Norwegians deserve any sympathy from Israelis given the country’s pro-Palestinian policies, whether the killer deserves any sympathy given his self-declared intention of fighting Islamic extremism and, perhaps ironically, whether calling attention to this debate is in itself an anti-Israel or anti-Semitic act. The debate seems to be taking place almost entirely on Hebrew websites. There’s a bit of bile ...
Pat Buchanan: Norwegian Right-Wing Terrorist 'Breivik May Be Right'
Post Date: 2011-07-26 14:12:29 by go65
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But, awful as this atrocity was, native-born and homegrown terrorism is not the macro-threat to the continent. That threat comes from a burgeoning Muslim presence in a Europe that has never known mass immigration, its failure to assimilate, its growing alienation, and its sometime sympathy for Islamic militants and terrorists. Europe faces today an authentic and historic crisis. With her native-born populations aging, shrinking and dying, Europe’s nations have not discovered how to maintain their prosperity without immigrants. Yet the immigrants who have come – from the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia – have been slow to learn the language and have failed to ...
Gunwalker scandal called "perfect storm of idiocy"
Post Date: 2011-07-26 13:29:46 by calcon
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In advance of a hearing later today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a report containing new testimony and allegations in the ATF gunwalker case. According to the report, Carlos Canino, Acting ATF Attache in Mexico, calls the strategy his agency employed: "The perfect storm of idiocy." "We armed the [Sinaloa] cartel," Canino told investigators. "It is disgusting." Canino will be a key witness at the hearing. Joint Committee report: Operation Fast and Furious: Fueling Cartel Violence (pdf) But it's not just the Sinaloa cartel. Documents obtained by Congressional investigators show weapons - sold under ATF's watch in ...
David Cameron sets up defences ahead of storm over economic growth
Post Date: 2011-07-26 11:34:45 by go65
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An unrepentant David Cameron prepared consumers and the markets for publication on Tuesday of gruesome growth figures by admitting Britain's "path back to growth will be a difficult one", but insisting no shortcut lay in either a fiscal or monetary stimulus. The chancellor, George Osborne, also set out his defence ahead of an expected political battering by claiming he had "turned Britain into a safe harbour in a storm" by focusing so rigidly on deficit reduction. He admitted: "There are risks to current and future growth." Both the prime minister and the chancellor spoke about the depth of Britain's economic difficulties on Monday after being briefed ...
Obama calls on Latinos to create a national movement to force GOP support on immigration reform
Post Date: 2011-07-26 02:17:32 by socalv8
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama courted the vote-rich Latino community Monday and urged activists to build a national movement to pressure Republicans to overhaul the nation's broken immigration laws. Obama reiterated his promise to usher in comprehensive immigration reform, but told the National Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Hispanic rights organization, that it could not be done without GOP help. “Let's be honest, I need a dance partner here, and the floor is empty,” Obama said. “I need you to keep building a movement for change outside Washington, one they can't stop.” The president made the comments during the NCLR annual ...
Iran Inks Gas Pipeline Deal With Iraq And Syria
Post Date: 2011-07-25 19:42:37 by Brian S
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TEHRAN — Iran, Iraq and Syria inked on Monday a Memorandum of Understanding for the construction of pipelines designed to deliver Iran's natural gas to the two Arab nations, local media reported. "The overall cost of the project is estimated around $10 billion," deputy oil minister and chairman of the Iranian National Gas Company (NIGC), Javad Ouji, was quoted by the Mehr news agency as saying after the signing ceremony. The construction of pipelines stretching for several thousand kilometres (miles) "should take three to five years once funding is secured," according to an estimate by Ouji on Sunday. The MoU was signed in the southern Iranian port of ...
Norway Killer Tells Judge ‘Two More Cells’ Exist
Post Date: 2011-07-25 12:13:09 by Brian S
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OSLO (Reuters) - Anders Behring Breivik told a Norwegian judge on Monday his bombing and shooting rampage that killed 93 people aimed to save Europe from a Muslim takeover, and said that "two more cells" existed in his organization. Breivik has previously said he had acted alone and police have said they have no other suspects in Friday's attacks. His remarks were relayed by the judge, Kim Heger, in a news conference held after a closed-door custody hearing. It was not clear whether Breivik is in fact part of an organization, although he has written about a revival of the Knights Templar, a medieval order of crusading monks. After the hearing, Heger said he had ordered ...
Mystery ‘Murdoch Leaks’ Site Appears Online
Post Date: 2011-07-25 12:11:20 by Brian S
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A site geared toward collecting anonymously sourced information about the phone hacking scandal surrounding Australian magnate Rupert Murdoch's media empire, News Corp., has appeared online. Thus far, Murdoch Leaks, as the site is titled, only has submission information displayed. "With the recent phone hacking scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch's News of the World and other aspects of his empire, it's become evident that the fourth estate has failed so it's time to invoke the fifth estate. And what is that? - It is You!" is written on the site, along with a Twitter link. TechCrunch was the first site to notice the mysterious website's appearance, and ...
The Oslo Terrorist's 'Counter-Jihad' Ideology
Post Date: 2011-07-25 10:21:26 by go65
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By now you’ve probably heard about Oslo terrorist Anders Behring Breivik’s “manifesto,” a 1,516-page screed with some writing by Breivik, but mostly consisting of quotes and articles by “counter-jihad” bloggers and similar right wing sources. (You can find it on the web if you really want to read it; I won’t link to it because there are sections that are basically a manual for terrorism; Breivik goes into great detail about the assembly and testing of the bomb, his weapons and ammunition, etc.) But I’ve seen a lot of people mistakenly attributing the articles that make up most of the manifesto to Breivik himself. In fact, the blog source that’s ...
Focus On Islamists Let Other Extremists Go Under The Radar
Post Date: 2011-07-24 19:31:53 by Brian S
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STOCKHOLM — Security services in Norway and elsewhere in the region had recently shifted their focus to Islamist extremism, letting other forms of terror slip under the radar, experts said. While there had been initial fears that Friday's twin attacks might have been an act of revenge for Norway's participation in the campaigns in Afghanistan and Libya, everything changed when it emerged the suspect was a native Norwegian. Named by media as Anders Behring Breivik, the alleged killer has been described by police as a "fundamentalist Christian" whose political opinions leaned "to the right." He had also been a member of the populist right-wing Progress ...
Norway Killer Espoused Right-Wing Philosophy Claiming To Be Zionist
Post Date: 2011-07-24 19:23:12 by Brian S
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BERLIN (JTA) -- The confessed perpetrator in the attack in Norway that killed as many as 98 people espoused a right-wing philosophy against Islam that also purports to be pro-Zionist. Anders Behring Breivik is charged with detonating a car bomb outside Oslo’s government headquarters, which houses the office of Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, and of shooting and killing at least 85 mostly young people at a political summer camp on nearby Utoya Island. The July 22 massacre reportedly was the the worst attack in Norway since the end of World War II. In numerous online postings, including a manifesto published on the day of the attacks, Breivik promoted the Vienna School or ...
Anders Behring Breivik plagiarised 'Unabomber'
Post Date: 2011-07-24 16:17:50 by Mad Dog
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Norway shooting: Anders Behring Breivik plagiarised 'Unabomber' Anders Behring Breivik, the suspect in Norway's twin attacks that killed at least 93 people, appeared to plagiarise large chunks of his manifesto from the writings of Theodore Kaczynski, the “Unabomber”, it has emerged. Anders Behring Breivik Photo: AP By Andrew Hough6:08PM BST 24 Jul 2011 The 32 year-old appears to have quoted verbatim large sections from the preaching of Theodore Kaczynski in his 1500 page online rant. Breivik had “copied and pasted” almost a dozen key passages from the 69 year-old’s 35,000 manifesto, only changing particular words such as “leftist” with ...
Israel Erupting in Protests, Tens of Thousands Chanting "Revolution"
Post Date: 2011-07-24 15:50:12 by Brian S
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Approximately 30,000 protesters marched in Tel Aviv last night, with social justice activists blocking central streets and chants of "Mubarak. Assad. Netanyahu" filling the air. Tel Aviv police arrested 42 activists, which is an extremely rare number, "if not unprecedented," according to +972 Magazine, which has been closely following the circumstances surrounding the sudden rise of Israel's progressive left. This (and all) pictures are care of Activestills.org and +972 Magazine. The protests are part of a larger movement that began as opposition to rising housing prices, and indeed is still centered around that issue, but has spread to other social justice and ...
Freepers are hinting they understand/support Norwegian right wing terrorist because he killed "pro-Palestine commies" (didn't take the right wing kooks long)
Post Date: 2011-07-24 13:37:12 by Godwinson
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Title: Freepers are hinting they understand/support Norwegian right wing terrorist because he killed "pro-palestine commies" To: SeekAndFind The island of Utoya is owned by the Workers’ Youth League (Arbeidernes ungdomsfylking). These were 16 to 22 year old sons & daughters of COMMUNISTS & SOCIALISTS at a Communist Socialist training camp on the island. 4 posted on Sunday, July 24, 2011 12:13:00 PM by macquire These were 16 to 22 year old sons & daughters of COMMUNISTS & SOCIALISTS at a Communist Socialist training camp on the island. That is College age indoctrination camps. Not the American Summer Camps. Government Funded to continue the destruction ...
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