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U.S. Joint Chiefs chairman visits to strengthen the strategic nuclear forces Artillery exchanges Ji (CHINA)
Post Date: 2011-07-10 23:22:02 by A K A Stone
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China news agency, Beijing, July 10 (Reporters Ou Yang and Kai Yu) - Jing Zhiyuan, commander of the PLA Second Artillery Corps, will be 10 pm in the Second Artillery Command, met with the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Lord line.
Jing Zhiyuan said that this year, Sino-US military relations have maintained a good momentum of development. President Hu Jintao's successful visit to the U.S. early next year, with President Obama to build mutual respect, mutual benefit and win-win partnership and reached important consensus on establishing a new situation, the strategic positioning of China-US relations, but also for the development of military relations to determine the direction.
Jing ...
Carl Bernstein: Murdoch’s Watergate? -This Is "THE BEGINNING-NOT THE END-OF THE SEISMIC EVENT"
Post Date: 2011-07-10 19:35:16 by Brian S
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The hacking scandal currently shaking Rupert Murdoch’s empire will surprise only those who have willfully blinded themselves to that empire’s pernicious influence on journalism in the English-speaking world. Too many of us have winked in amusement at the salaciousness without considering the larger corruption of journalism and politics promulgated by Murdoch Culture on both sides of the Atlantic. The facts of the case are astonishing in their scope. Thousands of private phone messages hacked, presumably by people affiliated with the Murdoch-owned News of the World newspaper, with the violated parties ranging from Prince William and actor Hugh Grant to murder victims and families ...
Court rejects health care for illegal immigrant (Canada)
Post Date: 2011-07-10 15:38:53 by Hondo68
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TORONTO — The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected an illegal immigrant’s bid to have her medical treatments covered under Canada’s health-care system, saying it could undermine immigration laws and turn the country into a "health-care safe haven." The three-judge panel ruled against Nell Toussaint, a Grenadan citizen who came to Canada as a visitor in 1999 and settled in Toronto. Toussaint’s health began to deteriorate in 2006 and over the years, she suffered from a number of conditions, including uterine fibroids, blood clots, tumours and hypertension. Unable to pay her medical bills, Toussaint applied to become a permanent resident in 2008 so she could be ...
New IMF Chief Lagarde Issues Dire Warning On U.S. Debt Default
Post Date: 2011-07-10 14:07:31 by Brian S
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New IMF chief Christine Lagarde warned on Sunday that a US debt default would jeopardize global economic stability and urged warring American politicians to forge a compromise budget deal. A default "would certainly jeopardize the stability, but not just the stability of the US economy, it would jeopardize the stability at large," the first woman to head the International Monetary Fund told ABC News. "And that's clearly against the purpose and the mission of the International Monetary Fund. So we are -- we are concerned." Without an agreement, she said she could see "interest hikes, stock markets taking a huge hit and real nasty consequences, not just for the ...
Obama and Holder Show Supreme Arrogance Placing Blame on Others
Post Date: 2011-07-10 11:51:21 by socalv8
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The unbelievable audacity of this Obama Administration is enough to rattle a man’s brain it is so brazenly full of chutzpah. It’s as if all of them from the Usurper-in-Chief on down think they not only can walk on water but they can use that water to cleanse all the dirt and mud that sticks to them from their dirty dealings. They all feel that they are above any criticism or judgment for their nefarious or improper conduct; the order of the day is just forget and find someone to investigate for something else to take the spotlight off of them. It would be interesting to know just how many incidents or issues are being “investigated” by Congress into Obama accomplice ...
Don't Misread Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
Post Date: 2011-07-10 10:52:56 by lucysmom
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CAIRO--“There is no monolithism,” Chinese statesman Zhou Enlai once said to Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger after their historic visit to Beijing in 1972. He was referring to the uniquely American habit of reducing distinct, if not conflicting parties—in this case the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China—into a seamless confederation hostile to U.S. interests. snip till, Washington blunders on. For the last decade, the White House in general and Congress in particular have insisted on treating the Muslim Brotherhood, the global Islamist movement based in Cairo, as both insoluble and adversarial. (Though it is not on the State Department’s list of ...
Obama administration approves sale of tanks to Egypt
Post Date: 2011-07-10 08:15:26 by CZ82
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Obama administration approves sale of tanks to Egypt Phil Boehmke The Defense Security Cooperation Agency has informed Congress that it has approved the sale of 125 M1A1 Abrams Tanks to the government of Egypt. According to the DSCA website: Section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) requires the President to give Congress advance written notification of the intent to sell defense articles, equipment and services. DSCA prepares and delivers the notifications to Congress only with the approval of the State Department. Something smells fishy. Selling tanks to Egypt at this moment in time is not unlike pouring gasoline on a forest fire. Is there any reason to believe that the ...
Small tsunami reaches Japan from 7.1 quake
Post Date: 2011-07-09 22:53:24 by Hondo68
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A small tsunami reached the Pacific coast of northern Japan on Sunday after a strong quake hit the region heavily damaged by the March earthquake and tsunami, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The port town of Ofunato, Iwate prefecture, saw a 10-centimetre tsunami at 1144 AEST, the agency said. The agency issued a tsunami advisory for Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the main island of Honshu at 1057 AEST. No damage has been reported from the tsunami and quake. Television footage of the port in Ofunato did not show any visible sign of the tsunami, with the water surface seemingly calm and flat. The agency issued the tsunami ...
The Sovereign Debt Crisis Is Never Going To End Until There Is A Major Global Financial Collapse
Post Date: 2011-07-07 13:48:55 by Capitalist Eric
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In the past, there certainly have been governments that have gotten into trouble with debt, but what we are experiencing now is the first truly global sovereign debt crisis. There has never been a time in recorded history when virtually all of the governments of the world were drowning in debt all at the same time. This sovereign debt crisis is never going to end until there is a major global financial collapse. There simply is no way to unwind the colossal web of debt that we have constructed in an orderly fashion. Right now the EU and the IMF have been making "emergency loans" to nations such as Greece, Ireland and Portugal, but that is only going to buy those countries a few ...
Real Danger to EU Lies With German Judges
Post Date: 2011-07-07 13:42:34 by Capitalist Eric
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Germany's judges hold the euro's fate in their hands ... Whether or not Europe's monetary union survives in its current form, shrinks to a Carolingian core, or shatters, depends as much on abstruse legal arguments put forward on Tuesday in Germany's constitutional court as it does on the parallel drama unfolding on Greek streets. Germany has warned that Greek bankruptcy would have set off epic contagion. If the eight judges in Karlsruhe rule that Europe's €500bn bail-out machinery breaches of Germany's Basic Law – or Grundgesetz – in any significant way, they risk knocking away the central prop beneath the debt edifice of Southern Europe. – UK ...
How America Ceded Capitalism’s Bastion to Germans
Post Date: 2011-07-06 11:46:54 by Brian S
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Richard A. Grasso can now reveal the secret ingredients. The clam-juice cocktails at the private Stock Exchange Luncheon Club, where brokers lined up three deep at the raw bar, contained tomato juice, cooled water from boiled chowder clams, ketchup, celery salt and the option of a freshly shucked clam. Add vodka and they called it a Red Snapper. “Everyone for years tried to duplicate it, and it was dead wrong,” said Grasso, 64, who started at the New York Stock Exchange as a clerk for $81 a week in 1968, a year after the NYSE first accepted a woman as a member. The clam-juice cocktails are long gone, along with the club, which closed in 2006. So is Grasso, who quit in 2003 as ...
India's health minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad: homosexuality is a 'disease' from the West
Post Date: 2011-07-05 21:45:38 by Sebastian
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Indian Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad leaves his residence in New Delhi, India, Tuesday. Azad has outraged activists by calling homosexuality a "disease" and "completely unnatural" during a conference on HIV/AIDS. India's health minister is coming under international fire after declaring that homosexuality is a "disease" brought to the country by foreigners. Ghulam Nabi Azad made the shocking remarks Monday at a conference on HIV/AIDS, which was attended by a slew of senior government officials, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. "Unfortunately, this disease has come to our country too ... where a man has sex with another man, which is ...
The Great Misdiagnosis of the U.S. Economy, Problem is Insolvency Not Liquidity
Post Date: 2011-07-05 17:53:51 by Capitalist Eric
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Imagine a doctor who administers an elaborate treatment for a man suffering from multiple broken bones, joint arthritis, and fallen foot arches. The quack doctor orders massive amounts of liquids as though he has a horrible case of dehydration. The inept doctor also permits unlimited freedom of movement around the hospital and its grounds to the patient, as part of the blunt treatment. The man still cannot walk right or breathe normally, has trouble lifting any significant weight with the arms, and stumbles around from shaky legs. But he has plenty of fluids and freedom to roam, urinating like a race horse. With the heavy mistreatment that is badly off the mark, he has a new problem, ...
Muslim Brotherhood's First Demand For US: Drop Israel
Post Date: 2011-07-05 11:24:26 by Brian S
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the weekend publicly announced the Obama Administration's desire to reestablish ties with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood responded this week by thanking Clinton, and issuing its first demand of its new American friends: drop support for the "Zionist regime." In an email response quoted by Bloomberg, Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Mahmoud Ghozlan stated that if America wants solid relations with the group, it should "stop supporting the corrupt and tyrannical regimes, backing the Zionist occupation and using double standards." It is important to remember that when the Muslim Brotherhood speaks of the ...
Is a U.S. Default Inevitable? [Pat Buchanan] [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-07-05 11:18:15 by Capitalist Eric
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As President Bush prepared to invade Iraq in September 2002, the head of his economic policy council, Lawrence Lindsey publicly estimated such a war could cost $100 billion to $200 billion. Lindsey had committed candor, and the stunned Bushites came down on him with both feet. “Baloney,” said Donald Rumsfeld. The likely cost would be $60 billion, said Mitch Daniels of the Office of Management and Budget. We can finance the war with Iraqi oil, said Paul Wolfowitz. By year’s end, Lindsey was gone, back, in Ronald Reagan’s phrase, “testing the magic of the marketplace.” And the cost of the Iraq War? It has passed $1 trillion. So Lindsey is worth listening to. ...
Iran Ridicules July 4th: America is Not Independent
Post Date: 2011-07-04 20:29:57 by Brian S
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Iran ”celebrates” Independence Day in the United States by saying the US has lost independence to foreign creditors and, of course, Israel. PRESS TV, totally funded by the Islamic Republic and a mouthpiece for the Islamic regime, told its readers, “America is no longer the land of the free. It is now ruled by oligarchs and corporatists. And it is no longer governed by the rule of law. The rich, the powerful and the politically connected abide by their own, very different, set of laws.” Choosing choice quotes from various websites, PRESS TV took a sentence from the Miami Herald that stated, “This year, as the nation celebrates Independence Day, the sputtering U.S. ...
A Liberal Having Lunch. MMM Delicious!!!
Post Date: 2011-07-04 02:14:00 by A K A Stone
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Rep. Allen West Thinks NATO Ally Turkey Is Behind Gaza Flotilla, Worried U.S. Will Have To Attack Israel If Israel Attacks The Flotilla
Post Date: 2011-07-03 13:28:31 by Brian S
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Frank Gaffney‘s Center for Security Policy honored Rep. Allen West (R-FL) in New York this week, where West “made a presentation delineating some of our more pressing national security concerns.” During the speech, West turned to the issue of the Gaza flotilla that has been making headlines in recent weeks. A group of pro-Palestinian activists, led by several Turkish groups, have said they plan to sail to Gaza on a humanitarian mission to break the Israeli blockade. Last year, Israeli commandos killed a number of activists on a similar mission, including one American citizen. But West seems to think that because Turks are involved in the flotilla, it’s actually the ...
Obama Wussed Out
Post Date: 2011-07-03 09:49:30 by CZ82
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Obama Wussed Out By James G. Wiles Mark Halperin is wrong. He's not a "dick." He's a wuss, and the story of how he just wussed out has not really been told. In a series of articles and posts here beginning back on March 8, I've followed the reported movements of the U.S. Navy's carrier strike groups around the world, arguing that they offer the best clue to President Barack Obama's strategic thinking on America's proper role in the world. This was undertaken as a thought experiment. At the time, the Arab Spring had broken across the Middle East. Libya, it seemed to me, presented a fair test of Mr. Obama's intentions -- announced in his 2009 Cairo ...
Obama's Final Solution
Post Date: 2011-07-03 09:44:42 by CZ82
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Obama's Final Solution By James Lewis President Barack Obama is the most dogmatic and dangerous leftist we have ever seen in this country. He is not hard to understand. Obama is very simple. All his ideas were frozen in concrete a hundred years ago by Marxist-Leninism around 1920. In Dreams from My Father, Obama celebrates third-world Socialism, but that's just Marxist-Leninism with a racial overlay. Obama's ideas are all old and discredited. They have failed from the Soviets to Cambodia. North Korea is facing another mass famine today, so terrible that it can't even feed its own army. That is yet another failure of Marxist-Leninism. Over and over and over again. For ...
Chinese Party Marks Nine Decades
Post Date: 2011-07-02 13:48:43 by CZ82
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Chinese Party Marks Nine Decades JEREMY PAGE BEIJING—Eager to bolster its legitimacy in the eyes of an increasingly restive and Internet-savvy society, China's Communist Party is marking its 90th anniversary Friday with a no-holds-barred campaign to reassert its airbrushed version of modern history. For a Chinese leadership spooked by uprisings in the Arab world, the campaign is designed to hammer home the message that only the party could have engineered China's emergence as the world's second-largest economy, and only the party can keep raising living standards, while maintaining social stability. Chinese paramilitary police took part in a celebration in Nanjing on ...
Biggest Balls Or Darwin Candidate?
Post Date: 2011-07-02 11:28:46 by war
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Organic Food Deaths in Europe Could Have Been Prevented
Post Date: 2011-07-01 08:34:46 by CZ82
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Organic Food Deaths in Europe Could Have Been Prevented By Mischa Popoff On the heels of the worst recorded outbreak of E. coli infections, with a death toll of 40 people, organic activists still can't face the facts. Mark A. Kastel, co-director of The Cornucopia Institute, points to "the importance of knowing the origin of your manure... otherwise," he says as if speaking to little children, "it could become the source of spreading foodborne pathogens such as E. coli."[1] Kastel seems oblivious to the fact that it was a certified-organic farm that was the source of this deadly E. coli outbreak, and tries to blame conventional beef and dairy farms. Right...and ...
SHOCKER of the Decade: John Lennon was a Closet Republican and Reagan Fan (!)
Post Date: 2011-06-29 11:54:41 by no gnu taxes
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"He was a very different person back in 1979 and 80 than he'd been when he wrote Imagine. By 1979 he looked back on that guy and was embarrassed by that guy's naivete." First Alice Cooper... now this John Lennon was a closet Republican, who felt a little embarrassed by his former radicalism, at the time of his death - according to the tragic Beatles star's last personal assistant. Fred Seaman worked alongside the music legend from 1979 to Lennon's death at the end of 1980 and he reveals the star was a Ronald Reagan fan who enjoyed arguing with left-wing radicals who reminded him of his former self. In new documentary Beatles Stories, Seaman tells filmmaker ...
Iran Secretly Tested 'Nuclear-Capable Missiles'
Post Date: 2011-06-29 11:44:20 by Brian S
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LONDON — Iran has carried out secret tests of ballistic missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload in breach of UN resolutions, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Wednesday. Hague's comments came a day after Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said they had fired 14 missiles in an exercise, one of them a medium-range weapon capable of striking Israel or US targets in the Gulf. In a statement to lawmakers, Hague said: "Iran has also been carrying out covert ballistic missile tests and rocket launches, including testing missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload in contravention of UN resolution 1929." He said Iran had also announced plans to ...
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