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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 ...
Time to Re-Privatize Fire Departments
Post Date: 2011-07-17 16:21:41 by jwpegler
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All across America, municipal governments are awakening to the costs of overly- generous public sector compensation. In Orange County, California, the average total pay and benefits package for a firefighter is $175,000 a year. Firefighter unions say that there can be no cuts to fire department budgets without putting the safety of the public at risk. Yet for most of the nation's history, firefighting services were reliably provided by the private sector. Today, one county in Georgia is showing how that can be done again. The history of firefighting is instructive. After the traumas of the Great Fire of London in 1666, a fledging market for fire insurance developed there. Those ...
Britain's Scotland Yard Chief Resigns Over Phone Hacking Scandal
Post Date: 2011-07-17 15:30:20 by Brian S
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London's police chief has quit over his links to a former News of the World editor caught up in the phone hacking scandal. Metropolitan Police commissioner Paul Stephenson denies any wrongdoing. Stephenson has been criticized for hiring Neil Wallis, a former News of the World executive editor arrested last week in the scandal, as a part-time PR consultant for a year until September 2010. He said he did not make the decision to hire Wallis, and had no knowledge of Wallis's links to phone hacking. "I will not lose any sleep over my personal integrity," he said. Earlier Sunday, Rebekah Brooks, former editor of the News of the World and close confidante of Rupert Murdoch, ...
Ex-British Murdoch Executive Rebekah Brooks Arrested
Post Date: 2011-07-17 13:07:24 by Brian S
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Rupert Murdoch's protégé Rebekah Brooks, who previously ran his British tabloids was arrested today in London in connection with the phone hacking scandal. Brooks' arrest comes as she "voluntarily attended a London police station to assist with their ongoing investigation," according to a statement released on her behalf, The Associated Press reported. Authorities are questioning Brooks on suspicion of conspiring phone hacking and on suspicion of corruption. Brooks spokesman David Wilson told the AP that Brooks' meeting with the police was arranged but "not aware she was going to be arrested." "Obviously this complicates matter ...
CHINA: China bear the brunt of Pentagon strategy to push the network
Post Date: 2011-07-15 23:23:53 by A K A Stone
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[News] Pentagon multidimensional July 14 released its first "network strategy for space operations," the official launch of the network security strategy, it will protect the United States firewall system, sensors, software and U.S. intelligence agencies to collect data. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Lynn said that day, this strategy focuses on defense rather than offense. Œ88;Cyber 3.0Œ89;” At the same time, U.S. officials also continued its public relations to the outside world "Network 3.0 (Cyber 43;43;3.0)" strategy is not as militant as people imagine, but only for defense and for self-defense. With the United States in recent years the field of ...
If The U.S. Government Loses Its AAA Rating It Could Potentially Unleash Financial Hell Across The United States
Post Date: 2011-07-15 19:14:08 by Capitalist Eric
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For decades, the U.S. government has had a AAA rating. On the scales used by the big three credit rating agencies, that is the highest credit rating that a government can get. Moody's scale actually uses lettering that is a little different from the other two big agencies ("Aaa" instead of "AAA"), but you get the point. Right now, the U.S. government is closer than ever to losing its AAA rating. The threat of a rating downgrade is going to continue to grow regardless of how the political theater that we are watching unfold in Washington D.C. plays out. The truth is that the federal government has accumulated a debt that is so vast that it will never be paid back. In ...
Glenn Beck Warns Against ‘Vaporization Of Israel’
Post Date: 2011-07-15 12:02:56 by Brian S
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In interview with 'Post' former-Fox News broadcaster promises Jerusalem mega-event in August will be bipartisan, not an anti-Obama rally. The “vaporization of Israel” and the end of the Western way of life as we know it could be on the horizon, American broadcaster Glenn Beck warned in an interview with The Jerusalem Post in the capital’s David Citadel Hotel on Wednesday.Beck came to Israel to prepare for “Restoring Courage,” his Jerusalem mega-event set for late next month. He also addressed the Knesset’s Diaspora Affairs Committee, toured Gush Etzion and Sderot, and met with hi-tech entrepreneurs and Vice Premier Moshe ...
Ahmed Wali Karzai’s Killer Had Been A Taliban Foe, U.S. ALLY
Post Date: 2011-07-15 11:56:12 by Brian S
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The man who murdered President Hamid Karzai’s half brother spent years as an ally of the United States in the war against the Taliban. The killer, Sardar Mohammad, a police commander, met on several occasions with U.S. and British military officials, shared intelligence with Americans and played a part in Afghan arrests of scores of Taliban fighters, according to three relatives interviewed on Thursday in his home near Kandahar. The reasons behind the dramatic switch that turned the 35-year-old officer against Ahmed Wali Karzai, perhaps the most powerful figure in southern Afghanistan, are still not understood. But one of Karzai’s brothers and a ...
Murdoch Now Faces FBI Phone Hacking Probe
Post Date: 2011-07-14 14:52:48 by Brian S
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A law enforcement official says the FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. sought to hack into the phones of Sept. 11 victims. The official spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. New York City-based News Corp. has been in crisis mode. A rival newspaper reported last week that the company's News of the World had hacked into the phone of U.K. teenage murder victim Milly Dowler in 2002 and may have impeded a police investigation into the 13-year-old's disappearance. More possible victims soon emerged: other child murder victims, 2005 London bombing victims, the families of ...
IS GOLD MONEY? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-07-14 13:07:59 by socalv8
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Big Ben's hesitation was telling.What say you?
Demands Mount in U.S. Congress for News Corp. Hacking Probes
Post Date: 2011-07-14 11:56:53 by Brian S
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Outrage over alleged bribery and phone hacking at a News Corp. (NWSA) tabloid in London mounted in Washington as lawmakers demanded probes of whether the company violated anti-corruption laws and Sept. 11 victims’ privacy. The scandal will be raised at a House hearing today on Internet privacy, said Ken Johnson, a spokesman for Representative Mary Bono Mack. The California Republican’s staff contacted News Corp. several times yesterday to seek “assurances that this is a uniquely U.K. problem,” Johnson said in an interview yesterday. “We want to make sure the contagion is not spreading,” he said. Employees of the now-defunct News of the World are accused of ...
Iran Prepares For Nuclear Work In Bunker: Sources
Post Date: 2011-07-13 16:57:47 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - Iran is preparing to install centrifuges for higher-grade uranium enrichment in an underground bunker, diplomatic sources say, a development that is likely to add to Western worries about Tehran's atomic aims. Preparatory work is under way at the Fordow facility, tucked deep inside a mountain to protect it against any attacks, and machines used to refine uranium could soon be moved to the site near the clerical city of Qom, the sources said. The Islamic Republic said in June it would shift production of uranium enriched to 20 percent purity to Fordow from its main Natanz plant this year and triple output capacity, in a defiant response to charges that it is trying to make ...
Obama, US viewed less favorably in Arab world, poll shows
Post Date: 2011-07-13 15:13:24 by Happy Quanzaa
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The United States is viewed less favorably in much of the Arab world today than it was during the final year of the Bush administration, and President Obama is less popular in the region that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to a poll released today (WED) by the Arab American Institute, a nonpartisan research and advocacy group. Attitudes towards the US president and the United States as a whole have been growing increasingly negative over the past ten years due to the invasion of Iraq, outrage over Guantanamo Bay, and continued frustration over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, which has been tracking attitudes ...
Obama Administration defends aid to Palestinians
Post Date: 2011-07-13 02:44:19 by socalv8
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Obama Administration officials defended US aid to the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday, telling Congress the funds are critical for progress on Israeli-Palestinian peace process. “Our assistance gives us leverage,” said Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Jacob Walles while testifying before a House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia. “There are practical benefits… improvement in security and helping develop institutions needed for a two-state solution,” he said The hearing, held to reassess funding for the PA, comes days after both the House and Senate passed resolutions urging the White House to cut aid to the Palestinians if they followed through ...
China's Secretive Army Opens Door For U.S.'s Mullen
Post Date: 2011-07-12 21:07:56 by A K A Stone
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China's famously secretive army opened its doors just a bit Tuesday for the visit of Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This was a fence-mending mission after China cut off military ties last year over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. The troops came out to salute Mullen for his official welcoming ceremony. One day earlier, speaking to Beijing university students, Mullen noted that China's time has come. "It is no longer a rising power. It has in fact arrived as a world power," Mullen said. China's newfound confidence was visible Monday as Mullen met his counterpart, Gen. Chen Bingde. While Mullen tried to showcase three new agreements for ...
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