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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 ...
China's first aircraft carrier held its first sea trial Wednesday morning
Post Date: 2011-08-09 20:13:06 by buckeroo
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China's first aircraft carrier held its first sea trial Wednesday morning, in a step likely to stoke patriotic pride at home and jitters abroad about Beijing's naval ambitions. The long-awaited debut of the carrier, refitted from a former Soviet craft, marks only an initial step toward China's plans to build a carrier force that can project influence into the region, where seas are spanned by busy shipping lanes and thorny territorial disputes. The carrier "left its shipyard in Dalian Port in northeast Liaoning province Wednesday morning to start its first sea trial," said Xinhua, describing the trip as only a tentative trial run for the unfinished ship. ...
Riots Spread North As London Cools
Post Date: 2011-08-09 17:16:57 by Brian S
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Rioting and looting spread to Manchester and the Midlands from London tonight with plans to prevent a fourth night of violence on the streets of the capital appearing to have worked. Prime Minister David Cameron flew back from his holiday early to join police chiefs in warning rioters they would face the full weight of the law. He chaired a meeting of the Government's emergency Cobra committee today, with another due to take place at 9am tomorrow. Businesses and shops across the capital shut down early in a bid to avoid attack from the gangs of youths who have ransacked buildings across the city over the previous days. Many firms also sent staff home amid fears that rioters could ...
Rioting In London Spread To Heavily Jewish Neighborhoods
Post Date: 2011-08-09 13:06:45 by Brian S
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August 9, 2011 (JTA) -- Rioting in London spread to heavily Jewish neighborhoods. Stores in the Jewish communities of Stamford Hill and Golders Green were urged to close and secure merchandise Monday night as unrest that began Saturday night in the north London neighborhood of Tottenham spread throughout London. Residents of Tottenham's Chasidic Orthodox community reportedly gathered on the street to heckle police over Shabbat, The Guardian reported. But following warnings from local rabbis and the Shomrim Orthodox security service, most members of the Jewish community stayed away from the riots, according to the Jewish Chronicle. They were advised that they could go to synagogue, ...
What's behind the London riots? - VIDEOS
Post Date: 2011-08-09 12:44:18 by lucysmom
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snip It began as a protest but it quickly descended into anarchy and lawlessness; these nightly confrontations are terrifying in their violence and frightening in their pointlessness; but they have not come out of nowhere and they're about more than just urban alienation or aggression. Anyone who tells you otherwise has no appetite for reality. It's not erroneous to accuse the rioters of criminality - but you shouldn't just stop there. Something's shifting in the wider British culture and you're kidding yourself if you pretend not to see it. All you need to do is look at the scale of the riots now engulfing London - they pass from district to district, they're ...
Grandmothers Video Plea Sheds Light On Yukon's Hacked Account
Post Date: 2011-08-08 15:56:13 by Biff Tannen
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Poster Comment:You can hear him screaming in the background.
FROM CHINA: China passed the crisis outside the United States to be vigilant
Post Date: 2011-08-08 00:19:33 by A K A Stone
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U.S. stocks plummeted on Thursday, the Dow fell more than 512 points, down 4.31%; the Nasdaq more than 5% decline, following the 2008 financial crisis since the largest single-day drop. We can not help but ask, the U.S. debt default crisis is not narrowly over? House and Senate have passed the U.S. debt limit of agreement, why the stock market slump?
In fact, to think carefully about the U.S. debt ceiling bill the following three main elements: three steps to improve debt ceiling, the range of one trillion yuan -2.4 2.1 trillion dollars; deficit must be cut $ 2.4 trillion, is now divided into three steps, and simultaneously raise the debt ceiling; silent and raise taxes on the rich. Look ...
Israelis Plan Million-Strong March As Protesters Call For Social Justice
Post Date: 2011-08-07 15:35:55 by Brian S
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Activists behind spiralling protests in Israel plan to build on one of the biggest marches ever seen in the country by piling on "more pressure, more people, more tents and more protests" culminating in a million-strong march in 50 cities next month.An estimated 300,000 people took to the streets on Saturday to press their demands for social justice and lower living costs in the largest demonstrations over social issues ever seen in the country. Despite scepticism that turnout could surpass previous events, almost twice as many people joined marches in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other towns and cities.Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, was forced to respond to the ...
Tel Aviv Exchange Halts Trade After 6% Fall
Post Date: 2011-08-07 13:19:00 by Brian S
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AFP - Trading on Israel's Tel Aviv stock exchange was temporarily halted on Sunday after the market fell six percent at the open on news of a US credit rating downgrade, Israeli public radio reported. Trading opened as normal on Sunday, the first day of Israel's working week, but mandatory suspensions went into effect minutes into the session as the stock exchange plunged. The leading TA-100 indice was down 5.73 percent at 988.24 points by the time trading was halted, while the blue-chip TA-25 had fallen 5.42 percent to 1,092.41, according to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange website. The session was the first on the Israeli bourse since Standard & Poor's rating agency said it ...
Finance leaders urgently discuss market stability
Post Date: 2011-08-07 12:15:03 by We The People
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TOKYO (AP) — Representatives of the world’s leading economies on Sunday urgently discussed the stability of financial markets after a historic U.S. credit downgrade rattled investors already worried about European debt crises. Deputies from the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies talked by telephone Sunday about proposals to minimize market shocks, South Korea’s central bank said. And the financial ministers from the Group of Seven economies planned talks before Asian markets open Monday. The countries are concerned that Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating late Friday will shake global markets. In a sign of the fallout, Middle East markets ...
Riot blaze: London in flames police cars, bus, shops burn over police shooting of 'gangster' (Yo! Photos of 'yoots')
Post Date: 2011-08-07 11:02:19 by Liberator
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* Twenty-six police officers hurt in clashes, with eight treated in hospital * Scotland Yard still dealing with 'isolated pockets of crime' this morning * Tottenham MP David Lammy appeals for calm and warns that there may be fatalities * Mob of 500 people protest about death of gangsta father-of-four Mark Duggan who was shot by officers * 100 riot police on the streets as Tottenham burns * Fears that violence was fanned by Twitter as picture of burning police car was re-tweeted more than 100 times * One eyewitness reports that trouble was ignited by police hitting a 16-year-old girl with batons * Shop looted and youths storm McDonald's and start cooking their own food * Mail on ...
CERN: Where the web was born due to European Big Government Socialism
Post Date: 2011-08-06 22:44:15 by Godwinson
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Where the web was born Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automatic information sharing between scientists working in different universities and institutes all over the world. CERN is not an isolated laboratory, but rather a focus for an extensive community that now includes about 60 countries and about 8000 scientists. Although these scientists typically spend some time on the CERN site, they usually work at universities and national laboratories in their home countries. Good contact is clearly essential. The basic idea of the WWW was to merge the technologies of personal ...
German Government Thinks Italy Too Big For European Financial Stability Facility To Save -Spiegel
Post Date: 2011-08-06 13:20:53 by Brian S
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Dow Jones Newswires 08-06-111248ET FRANKFURT -(Dow Jones)- Germany's government thinks Italy is too big for Europe's rescue fund to save, Der Spiegel magazine reports in a preview of an article to be published Monday. The government doubts whether even tripling the size of the rescue fund, known as the European Financial Stability Facility, would enable it to save Italy because the country's financing needs are so enormous, the magazine reports without naming the source of its information. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso this week suggested increasing the size of the EFSF, which currently has a planned lending capacity of EUR440 billion ($622.9 billion), to ...
China Tells US 'Good Old Days' of Borrowing Are Over
Post Date: 2011-08-06 11:31:28 by Brian S
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NEW YORK/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China bluntly criticised the United States Saturday one day after the superpower's credit rating was downgraded, saying the "good old days" of borrowing were over. Reuters Standard & Poor's cut the U.S. long-term credit rating from top-tier AAA by a notch to AA-plus Friday over concerns about the nation's budget deficits and climbing debt burden. China -- the United States' biggest creditor -- said Washington only had itself to blame for its plight and called for a new stable global reserve currency. "The U.S. government has to come to terms with the painful fact that the good old days when it could just borrow its way out ...
A Secret War in 120 Countries
Post Date: 2011-08-06 10:20:46 by We The People
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Somewhere on this planet an American commando is carrying out a mission. Now, say that 70 times and you’re done… for the day. Without the knowledge of the American public, a secret force within the U.S. military is undertaking operations in a majority of the world’s countries. This new Pentagon power elite is waging a global war whose size and scope has never been revealed, until now. After a U.S. Navy SEAL put a bullet in Osama bin Laden’s chest and another in his head, one of the most secretive black-ops units in the American military suddenly found its mission in the public spotlight. It was atypical. While it’s well known that U.S. Special Operations forces are ...
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