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Pakistan Could "Pull Troops From Afghan Border" If U.S. Cuts Aid
Post Date: 2011-07-12 12:10:10 by Brian S
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan could pull back troops fighting Islamist militants near the Afghan border if the United States cuts off aid, the defense minister said on Tuesday in an interview with Pakistani media. The United States Monday said it would hold back $800 million -- a third of nearly $2 billion in security aid to Pakistan -- in a show of displeasure over Pakistan's removal of U.S. military trainers, limits on visas for U.S. personnel and other bilateral irritants. "If at all things become difficult, we will just get all our forces back," Defense Minister Ahmed Mukhtar said in an interview with the Express 24/7 television to be aired later on Tuesday. The ...
Strong Blast Hits Egyptian Gas Pipeline: Report
Post Date: 2011-07-12 11:44:58 by Brian S
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CAIRO — Saboteurs bombed an Egyptian gas pipeline in the Sinai peninsula for the fourth time since February, cutting supplies to Israel and Jordan, the official MENA news agency reported Tuesday. The blast occurred near the town of al-Arish in the north of the Sinai peninsula, it said, adding that the ensuing "flames were up to 10 metres (32 feet) high. "The area is being searched to find those behind this explosion and to find the type of explosives used," it said. It was the fourth attack on the gas pipeline since February, a time of political upheaval when an uprising toppled former president Hosni Mubarak and saw power handed over to a military council. Egypt ...
Ahmed Wali Karzai Killing Sparks Fears Of Turmoil In Kandahar
Post Date: 2011-07-12 11:43:19 by Brian S
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Ahmed Wali Karzai, the powerful half-brother of the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has been killed by one of his security guards inside his house in Kandahar, raising the prospect of turmoil in a city widely seen as the key to the war in Afghanistan. The president confirmed the death at a press conference in Kabul intended to mark the visit of the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, to the capital. "Ahmed Wali Karzai was killed at about 11.30am," General Abdul Razaq, Kandahar's chief of border police, said. "He was killed by his bodyguard inside his house." Officials said the assassin, named as Sardar Mohammed, reportedly Ahmed Wali Karzai's chief of security, ...
Uh Oh – Italy Is Coming Apart Like A 20 Dollar Suit
Post Date: 2011-07-11 17:24:04 by Capitalist Eric
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Did anyone really think that Italy would be able to get through this thing without needing a bailout? Just when you thought that things in Europe could get back to normal for a little while, here comes Italy. On Friday, there was a bit of a "mini-panic" as investors started dumping Italian financial assets. European officials are concerned that the sovereign debt crisis that has ravaged Greece, Ireland and Portugal will now put the Italian economy through the wringer. European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting for Monday morning. He is denying that the meeting is about Italy, but everyone knows that Italy is going to be discussed. European Central ...
'Anonymous' Hackers Release 90,000 Military Emails And Logins
Post Date: 2011-07-11 16:58:15 by Brian S
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SNIP--- Update: Anonymous releases 90,000 military emails and passwords Hackers claiming to be part of Anonymous said this afternoon that they had released some 90,000 military email addresses and passwords stolen from the servers of defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. "We infiltrated a server on their network that basically had no security measures in place," they wrote. "We were able to run our own application, which turned out to be a shell and began plundering some booty. Most shiny is probably a list of roughly 90,000 military emails and password hashes (md5, non-salted of course!). We also added the complete sqldump, compressed ~50mb, for a good measure." ...
Murdoch Tabloid Scandal Reaches 9/11 Victims, Ex-PM Gordon Brown
Post Date: 2011-07-11 16:53:38 by Brian S
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The printing presses for News of the World may have fallen silent, but the tabloid remains at the top of the news agenda in Britain amid fresh allegations journalists targeted former prime Minister Gordon Brown and the families of 9/11 victims as part of the paper’s phone-hacking schemes. For more than 10 years, Brown was the target of News International journalists, who allegedly attempted to access his voicemail, obtain banking information, legal files and family medical records, the Guardian reports. Details surrounding Brown’s infant son’s battle with cystic fibrosis were allegedly stolen for a 2006 story that appeared in The Sun, another News International tabloid. ...
Pakistan Courts China as US Announces Military Aid Cuts
Post Date: 2011-07-11 12:58:31 by Brian S
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Yesterday’s announcement that the US is withdrawing some $800 million in military aid from Pakistan looks to do more serious harm to US-Pakistani relations, but if administration officials expected the “rebuke” to be met with an act of contrition from the Pakistani military, they were mistaken. Rather, Pakistan’s military today insists that they don’t need the US military aid at all, and that the civilian government is the one more in need of help from abroad. Major General Athar Abbas, the military’s spokesman, also accused the US of trying to undermine the military leadership. But the US isn’t the only horse in the race to court the Pakistanis, and ...
Next Up: Pakistan - Ominous Signs Of A Major New War
Post Date: 2011-07-11 12:53:49 by Brian S
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I see someone besides myself has noticed all the “leaking” going on in the upper echelons of Washington over our rocky relationship with Pakistan. Suddenly Islamabad is on the verge of being classified as part of the Axis of Evil, with the head of the joint chiefs, Admiral Mullen, openly accusing the Pakistanis of “sanctioning” the killing of a journalist, and allying with a faction of the Taliban. Since when does a military man – the titular uniformed head of the US armed force, no less – speak out on such sensitive political matters? Why, when he has the full backing of the White House – which obviously has plans for the Pakistanis. The new accusations ...
Assad Loyalists Storm US And French Embassies In Syria
Post Date: 2011-07-11 11:22:20 by Brian S
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Protesters loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad briefly broke into the U.S. embassy in Damascus on Monday and security guards used live ammunition to prevent them storming the French embassy, diplomats said. No casualties were reported in the attacks but a U.S. official said Washington condemned Syria's slow response and its failure to the prevent the assault on its embassy. The attacks followed a visit by the U.S. and French ambassadors to the city of Hama last week in support of the hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators who have been gathering there despite attacks by Syrian forces. "We are calling in the Syrian charge (d'affaires) to complain," ...
Draft Mental Health Act, "public order disturbances" admitted to the provisions of Yin Zhengyi
Post Date: 2011-07-10 23:52:22 by A K A Stone
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All suggestions of mental health legislation to force heated debate with mental disorders treated in suitable conditions "Disturbing public order" admitted to the provisions of Yin Zhengyi June 10, concern the "Mental Health Law (Draft)" 26 years after the end of a long difficult birth available, the State Council Legislative Affairs Office on the draft opinion to the community in the assembly closed yesterday for the first time, the community in different ways participate in the discussion, Another number of professional organizations to submit a modified proposal. In addition to mental disorders in patients with involuntary hospitalization medical system, community ...
Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail a train accident caused 11 outages due to thunderstorms late trains
Post Date: 2011-07-10 23:31:10 by A K A Stone
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At 18:10 on the 10th Xu, Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway to Shanghai the direction of the G151 train failure. After emergency repairs in Shandong, 19:37 that night repair is completed, the current line has been restored. Reporters from the railway authorities learned that the preliminary investigation, the accident was mainly caused by a lightning storm a fault in the catenary. After the incident, the vehicle parked in Shandong emergency repairs. After more than 1 hour of repair, the line returned to normal. Affected, with varying degrees of follow-up the train late. Reporters learned from the Shanghai railway sector, as 22:30, a total of 11 trains delayed. (Reporters Guyuan Kun, Yang ...
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 ...
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