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Actually, MSM, China’s an Economic Mess
Post Date: 2011-07-24 08:27:32 by CZ82
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Actually, MSM, China’s an Economic Mess In a repeat of Walter Duranty, tunnel-visioned liberals like Thomas Friedman keep ignoring China's authoritarian-fueled chaos. July 22, 2011 - 12:01 am - by Ying Ma America’s movers and shakers can’t seem to stop ogling Chinese authoritarian chic. While few would defend China’s repressive political system, numerous politicians, business executives, and pundits bow before China’s state-directed capitalism, equating authoritarianism with efficiency and ruthlessness with enlightenment. At the heart of this ogling lies an admiration for Beijing’s ability to undertake large projects far more quickly than ...
At least 32 die in east China high-speed train crash
Post Date: 2011-07-24 08:01:59 by CZ82
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At least 32 die in east China high-speed train crash By Ben Blanchard BEIJING | Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:50pm EDT (Reuters) - At least 32 people died when a high-speed train smashed into a stalled train in China's eastern Zhejiang province Saturday, state media said, raising new questions about the safety of the fast-growing rail network. The accident occurred on a bridge near the city of Wenzhou after the first train lost power due to a lightning strike and a bullet train following behind crashed into it, state television said. The total power failure rendered useless an electronic safety system designed to warn following trains of stalled trains on the tracks up ahead, and ...
Amy Winehouse Dead: Singer Found Dead At London Home
Post Date: 2011-07-23 15:15:00 by sneakypete
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Troubled, Grammy-winning singer Amy Winehouse has been found dead in her North London home, Sky News is reporting. The Daily Mail reports that police have confirmed the passing. In a statement, the London Metropolitan Police said, "Police were called by London Ambulance Service to an address in Camden Square NW1 shortly before 16.05hrs today, Saturday 23 July, following reports of a woman found deceased. On arrival officers found the body of a 27-year-old female who was pronounced dead at the scene. Enquiries continue into the circumstances of the death. At this early stage it is being treated as unexplained." A suspected drug overdose took the life of the singer, Nick Buckley ...
Man Suspected of Norway Massacres is Affluent, Educated Extremist
Post Date: 2011-07-23 12:26:02 by Skip Intro
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(NewsCore) - OSLO -- Anders Behring Breivik, the man accused of carrying out Western Europe's worse terror attacks since 2004's Madrid bombings, was described Saturday as a well-educated, affluent loner who regularly expressed extremist Islamaphobic views on web forums. Although previously unknown to police, information that emerged Saturday presented the blond, 6ft, 32-year-old Norwegian -- described by authorities as a "Christian fundamentalist" -- as a hate-filled right-wing fanatic who used his wealth and business interests to prepare for Friday's twin attacks in Oslo and Utoya island. Breivik set up a Facebook and Twitter account on July 17, posting a single ...
Freeper admits Norway mass killer "seems like a conservative...would fit in here at freerepublic"
Post Date: 2011-07-23 01:30:48 by Godwinson
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Freeper admits Norway mass killer "seems like a conservative...would fit in here at freerepublic" It seems like a conservative who is sceptical about islam and multiculturalism. He would fit in here at freerepublic. I read many of his posts. He seemed smart, and I agreed with most of it. Not a hint of any aggression or murderous intent. He had ambitions of starting a conservative print media as he didn’t like the socialist bias of the msn. Just crazy. 58 posted on Friday, July 22, 2011 10:29:27 PM by Eurotwit
At Least 80 Killed In Norway Shooting, Police Say
Post Date: 2011-07-22 22:13:46 by Brian S
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Norway’s peace was shattered twice Friday when a bomb ripped open buildings in the heart of its government and a man dressed as a police officer gunned down youths at a summer camp. Police say at least 80 people were killed at the youth camp shooting. Police linked one Norwegian, reportedly named Anders Behring Breivik, to both attacks, which is this nation’s worst violence since the Second World War. Police said they did not know the motive but an official said that the suspect seems to have acted alone and does not appear to be linked to a terrorist group. Hundreds of youths ran in terror at a camp on Utoya island where the prime minister had been scheduled to speak Saturday. ...
Tall, Blonde And [of] Nordic Looks Gunman Opens Fire At Norway Labour Party's Youth Camp, Unconfirmed Reports Of 25-30 Killed
Post Date: 2011-07-22 15:15:41 by Brian S
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A gunman has opened fire at Norway Labour Party's youth camp on the island of Utoya, fifty miles south of Oslo, shooting several people. Unconfirmed eyewitness reports have said 25 to 30 may have been people killed. The gunman appeared “tall, blonde and [of] Nordic looks” according to reports. A reporter from Norwegian TV 2 news channel, Lasse Evensen, said he has spoken to several witnesses at the site. "They told me that there was a man with light hair and light skin, 190 centimeters tall and well-trained, who pulled out an automatic weapon and opened fire," said Evensen. Acting chief of police for the Northern Buskerud Police District, Bjorn Erik Sem ...
‘Anonymous’ Defiant In The Face Of Arrests; Says It Has NATO Documents
Post Date: 2011-07-22 11:38:22 by Brian S
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SAN FRANCISCO — Notorious hacker group Anonymous on posted a defiant message to police Thursday and boasted of plundering sensitive data from NATO computers. "We are not scared anymore," read an online message that purported to be a response by Anonymous and splinter group Lulz Security. "Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to us as you cannot arrest an idea... there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- you can possibly do to make us stop." As if to underscore the point, a message posted at a Twitter account by "AnonymousIRC" claimed to have looted about a gigabyte of NATO data that even the rebel hacker group deemed too sensitive to release. ...
Captain America - Falling
Post Date: 2011-07-22 09:40:04 by Biff Tannen
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George Orwell (author of '1984') Was a Socialist
Post Date: 2011-07-22 09:08:33 by Godwinson
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George Orwell Was a Socialist By Matthew Yglesias on Mar 1, 2010 at 3:58 pm A lot of American right-wingers seem to have gotten it into their heads that George Orwell would have loved the idea of invading Iraq, which seems doubtful to me but at least possible, but Hendrick Hetzberg observes that Newt Gingrich has further extrapolated from this the idea that Orwell would have hated socialized medicine. Here’s Gingrich on Orwell on socialism: [The message of 1984 is] that centralized planning inherently leads to dictatorship, which is why having a secular socialist machine try to impose government-run health care in this country is such a significant step away from freedom and away ...
United States Targets Whaling Industry
Post Date: 2011-07-22 01:59:00 by socalv8
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has officially told President Obama that Iceland's whaling pursuits directly threaten the endangered Fin whale. The president now must weigh his decision on how to handle the situation, which can include trading sanctions with the North Atlantic island nation. Iceland stopped its whaling industry in the early 1990’s, but it resumed commercial whaling in 2006, and the number of Fin whales being taken has since risen to roughly 150 catches a year. “Iceland's disregard for the International Whaling Commission's (IWC) global moratorium on commercial whaling is unacceptable,” said Locke. “Its harvest of whales and export of ...
Russia Declares 'Era Of Soyuz' After Shuttle
Post Date: 2011-07-21 12:38:53 by Brian S
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MOSCOW — Moscow on Thursday declared it is now "the era of the Soyuz" after the US shuttle's last flight left the Russian system as the sole means for delivering astronauts to the International Space Station. Far less glamorous than the horizontal-landing winged shuttle, the principle of Russia's Soyuz rocket and capsule system for sending humans into space has changed little since Yuri Gagarin became the first man in orbit in 1961. But after the successful landing of the US Space Shuttle Atlantis Thursday drew the curtain on the 30-year US space shuttle programme, it is now the only vehicle which can propel astronauts towards the ISS. "From today, the era of ...
U.S. Republicans Hit Aid To Israel Neighbors, Pakistan
Post Date: 2011-07-20 19:13:30 by Brian S
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US Republicans moved Wednesday to cut aid to several of Israel's neighbors and to tighten control of assistance to Pakistan, vowing to get tough on Islamic militants and tame US spending. The Republican-led House Foreign Affairs Committee pushed a range of issues in a spending bill for the fiscal year starting in October, including cutting US contributions to the United Nations and restricting funding for abortion. But to come into force, Republican lawmakers will need to reach a compromise with the Senate where President Barack Obama's Democratic Party retains control and is mostly supportive of the administration's international engagements. The House spending bill would ...
News Corp. Now Facing Fresh Inquiry In Australia
Post Date: 2011-07-20 11:32:18 by Brian S
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CANBERRA (Reuters) - The Australian arm of News Corp will have to answer "hard questions" in Australia following the growing phone hacking scandal in the United Kingdom, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Wednesday. Gillard said Australians had been "disturbed" by events in Britain, where Australian-born Rupert Murdoch and his son James defended at a parliamentary hearing on Tuesday their handing of events that have shaken the family's grip on their media empire. "When there has been a major discussion overseas, when people have seen telephones hacked into, when people have seen individuals grieving have to deal with all of this, then I do think ...
Iran Says Shot Down A U.S. Spy Plane Over Nuclear Site
Post Date: 2011-07-20 11:30:57 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - Iran has shot down an unmanned U.S. spy plane over its Fordu nuclear site, a state-run website reported Wednesday, a day after it confirmed it was installing a new generation of advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges. "An unmanned U.S. spy plane flying over the holy city of Qom near the uranium enrichment Fordu site was shot down by the Revolutionary Guards' air defense units," MP Ali Aghazadeh Dafsari was quoted as saying by the Youth Journalists Club, affiliated to Iran's state TV. "The plane ... was trying to collect information about the site's location ," he said, without giving details. He did not say when the incident happened. The ...
Hillary to meet Jayalalithaa in Chennai46;
Post Date: 2011-07-20 03:00:26 by socalv8
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in Chennai on Wednesday on the second day of her visit to India. She will meet Jayalalithaa at 4.10 pm for about 10 minutes. Hillary, who arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday for the second Indo-US strategic dialouge, is likely to meet representatives of US companies too after arriving in Chennai at 12.45 pm. She will address a gathering of students and opinion-makers at the newly-built Anna Centenary Library at Kotturpuram at 1.30 pm, and also interact with artistes at the Kalashetra Foundation along with members of women groups. On Tuesday, Hillary pledged support for combating violent extremism with ...
Early sea ice melt onset, snow cover retreat presage rapid 2011 summer decline
Post Date: 2011-07-19 23:40:56 by go65
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Arctic sea ice extent declined at a rapid pace through the first half of July, and is now tracking below the year 2007, which saw the record minimum September extent. The rapid decline in the past few weeks is related to persistent above-average temperatures and an early start to melt. Snow cover over Northern Eurasia was especially low in May and June, continuing the pattern seen in April. Overview of conditions As of July 17, 2011, Arctic sea ice extent was 7.56 million square kilometers (2.92 million square miles), 2.24 million square kilometers (865,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average. Sea ice is particularly low in the Barents, Kara, and Laptev Seas (the far northern ...
The Collapse Of Paper Money and The Vertical Move Of Gold
Post Date: 2011-07-19 19:20:23 by Capitalist Eric
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Paper money, invented by the Chinese, first appeared in the West in the 13th century. Brought back from China by Marco Polo and his uncles, author Ralph Foster describes the West’s reaction to the hitherto unseen phenomena of money as a piece of paper. Upon returning to Italy, Polo showed off some Chinese currency notes and explained how they were used... An article by Will Willbond in the November 1995 issue of ‘The Bank Note Reporter’ describes the Venetian reaction: The Emperor of China (who we call Kubalai Khan) gave the Polos a camel loaded with 1,000 cash paper notes as a gift from their sovereign. The doge (chief magistrate of Venice) and the cardinal (the Pope’s ...
'Someone's Coming To Get Me': Terrified Phone-Hacking Whistleblower Feared For His Life
Post Date: 2011-07-19 12:29:49 by Brian S
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The man who launched the entire phone hacking scandal had become a paranoid recluse who believed someone was out to get him, a friend has revealed.Sean Hoare, who was found dead at his flat in Watford, Hertfordshire, yesterday, had spent much of the last weeks of his life 'hiding' in his flat with the curtains drawn.Last night a friend and neighbour claimed Mr Hoare, 47, had become increasingly reclusive and paranoid in recent weeks. ‘He would talk about someone from the Government coming to get him,' he said.'He’d say to me, “If anyone comes by, don’t say I’m in”.'He was physically going downhill. He was yellow in colour and wasn’t ...
News Corp faces global investigation into bribery
Post Date: 2011-07-18 21:53:34 by Skip Intro
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News Corp faces global investigation into bribery Pressure mounting in US for a full-scale inquiry into News Corporation under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act News Corporation faces a global investigation of all its businesses to ascertain whether they engaged in the same acts of bribery revealed to have taken place in the UK between News of the World reporters and police. With pressure mounting in the US for the launch of a full-blooded inquiry into News Corporation under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the daunting consequences of such a move are becoming evident. Mike Koehler, a law professor at Butler University who is an expert in the act, said a costly and expensive ...
We're All Greeks Now [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-07-18 15:47:55 by jwpegler
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Departing for New Hampshire in November 2010, Sen. Judd Gregg, the fiscal conservative President Obama wanted in his Cabinet, blurted an inconvenient truth: “This nation is on a course where if we don’t do something about it, get … fiscal policy (under control), we’re Greece.” The remark was regarded as hyperbole. But Gregg had a point. For though Greece, measured by the size of her economy, is only 2 to 3 percent of the EU or the U.S. economy, she is a microcosm of the West. Consider the demography. According to the most recent revision of the U.N.’s “World Population Prospects,” Greece in 2010 had 11.2 million people. More than 24 percent were 60 ...
News Of The World Phone Hacking Whistleblower Found Dead
Post Date: 2011-07-18 13:26:53 by Brian S
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Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbiz reporter who was the first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead, the Guardian has learned. Hoare, who worked on the Sun and the News of the World with Coulson before being dismissed for drink and drugs problems, is said to have been found dead at his Watford home. Hertfordshire police would not confirm his identity, but the force said in a statement: "At 10.40am today [Monday 18 July] police were called to Langley Road, Watford, following the concerns for welfare of a man who lives at an address on the street. Upon police and ambulance arrival at a property, the body of a ...
Book: Hollywood Producer Was Mossad Agent
Post Date: 2011-07-18 12:25:23 by Brian S
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Could one of Hollywood's greatest Israeli producers have been a Mossad agent? In a new biography called Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan,” authors Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman claim that the producer took part in secret Mossad operations. According to the book, Milchan supervised accounts and financed "the essential needs of Israel intelligence operations outside the country." Those "essential needs" include purchasing components for Israel's nuclear arsenal. Gelman recalls a phone call with Milchan during which Gelman asked the producer: "Should I be worried?" The New York Times had written that ...
Gunmen Kill Close Adviser To Afghan President In Bold Attack, Another Strike Against Leader’s Inner Circle
Post Date: 2011-07-17 19:58:23 by Brian S
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KABUL—Gunmen strapped with explosives killed a close adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a member of parliament on Sunday in another insurgent strike against the Afghan leader’s inner circle. Jan Mohammed Khan was an adviser to Karzai on tribal issues and was close to the president, a fellow Pashtun. His killing, which the Taliban claimed responsibility for, came less than a week after the assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president’s half brother and one of the most powerful men in southern Afghanistan. Two men wearing suicide bomb vests and armed with guns attacked Khan’s home in the western Kabul district of Karti Char, said Defence Ministry official ...
Miliband Calls for Break-Up of Murdoch's Zionist Media Empire
Post Date: 2011-07-17 19:47:34 by Brian S
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Editor's Note Murdoch's Media empire is a pillar of the Zionist Empire media. It has been used to advance the Zionist Empire agenda: Staunch defense of the Israeli Apartheid occupation regime, incitements against Arabs and Muslims, and blackmails of politicians in US-EU to (through character assassination) to keep them in line with regard to the Zionist global agenda. AFP - The British establishment’s ties to Rupert Murdoch came under renewed scrutiny Sunday as he made a second public apology for phone hacking and warned those responsible had “no place to hide”. The media baron’s latest attempt to stem the crisis caused by the scandal-hit News of the World ...
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