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Vietnam seeks US support in China dispute
Post Date: 2011-06-12 18:59:30 by Happy Quanzaa
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Vietnam has called on the US and other nations to help resolve the escalating territorial disputes in the resource-rich South China Sea, in a move likely to anger Beijing, which opposes what it sees as outside interference. Tensions between China and Vietnam continued to rise over the weekend, ahead of live-fire drills planned by Vietnam’s navy on Monday on an islet around 20 miles from the coast of central Vietnam, which Hanoi described as “routine”. Stirred by a number of maritime confrontations with China over recent weeks, hundreds of Vietnamese took part in rare anti-China protests on Sunday for the second straight weekend, with the usually draconian police allowing ...
Sen. Lindsey Graham: Now Is The Time To Take Action In Syria
Post Date: 2011-06-12 17:10:02 by Brian S
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(CBS News) Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Sunday called for increased U.S. action in Syria, and said "now is the time to let [Syrian president Bashar] Assad know that all options are the table" - including the possible use of military force. Graham, in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation," decried what he described as the Assad regime's "wholesale slaughter" against the Syrian people, and urged the U.S. to take a similar approach in that nation as it has in Libya in seeking the ouster of Muammar Qaddafi. It's time, Graham contended, to "get the regional partners to tell the Assad he has to go. And put everything on the table - including ...
Al Qaeda Operative Key To 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings Killed In Somalia
Post Date: 2011-06-11 19:57:56 by Brian S
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Reporting from Washington— In a blow to Al Qaeda's efforts to control havens in East Africa, the Al Qaeda operative believed responsible for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya has been gunned down by Somali security forces, U.S. officials said Saturday. The killing of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is another major loss for the terrorist organization after the death of Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in Pakistan six weeks ago. Mohammed was an experienced operational planner who played a major role in persuading African militant groups involved in local insurrections to join Al Qaeda's global fight, U.S. officials and experts said. White House ...
Phil Giraldi Spills Beans on Israeli Espionage in America
Post Date: 2011-06-11 19:53:41 by Brian S
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Phil Giraldi stepped out today to do his country a great service and save some honor for the American counter intelligence community. He put the spotlight on America’s greatest national security scandal, the decades old investment that Israeli Intelligence has made in attacking its so called America ally by stealing everything it can get it’s hands on. But there is a second darker side to this first betrayal, and that is their corruption of our own political, Justice and State Department organs to literally act as protectors for them. As a group they have betrayed the American people, and all those involved should receive long prison sentences for high treason. Why would ...
ONe More Definition of Insanity: Croatia Given Conditional Approval to Join E.U. in 2013
Post Date: 2011-06-11 08:13:10 by war
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LONDON — After six arduous years of talks on its bid for European Union membership, Croatia was told Friday that it should be able to join in 2013, but that its efforts to combat corruption and reform its judiciary will be monitored in the meantime in case they slip. Held back for years by its failure to cooperate fully in the prosecution of war crimes suspects, Croatia was then pressed by the E.U. to make a host of changes, including reforms to its judicial system. On Friday it was judged to have finally met entry requirements, furthering the quest for it to become the 28th E.U. state — providing the bloc’s 27 nations agree to that timetable. But the continuing regime of ...
Dear John, Thanks, Love, MoMo
Post Date: 2011-06-11 08:10:37 by war
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Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi has written to members of Congress thanking them for criticizing President Obama last week over his involvement in the NATO-led military campaign in Libya. “I want to express my sincere gratitude for your thoughtful discussion of the issues,” Colonel Qaddafi wrote in the letter, a copy of which was supplied to The New York Times by a person seeking to defend the administration’s policy. “We are confident that history will see the wisdom of your country in debating these issues.” Colonel Qaddafi did not refer specifically to a resolution passed by the House that rebuked the administration for maintaining an American role in the campaign ...
Margaret Thatcher's 'Sarah Palin snub' enrages US right
Post Date: 2011-06-10 10:52:07 by go65
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ush Limbaugh, the talk show host, denounced the suggestion that the former Prime Minister might take a dim view of Mrs Palin as “preposterous”. Other supporters of the likely presidential candidate complained online that Lady Thatcher’s aides had “disgraced” her. Mrs Palin, the darling of the right wing Tea Party, has described Margaret Thatcher as one of her “political heroines” and repeatedly expressed her desire for a meeting. She disclosed recently that she is planning to stop off in London on her way to Sudan later this summer and said she hoped to arrange an interview. A photo opportunity with Lady Thatcher could help earn Mrs Palin important ...
REUTERS: Clinton In Talks About Possible Move To World Bank
Post Date: 2011-06-09 20:04:35 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said on Thursday. The former first lady and onetime political rival to President Barack Obama quickly became one of the most influential members of his Cabinet after she began her tenure at State in early 2009. She has said publicly she did not plan to stay on at the State Department for more than four years. Associates say Clinton has expressed interest in having the World Bank job should the bank's current president, Robert Zoellick, leave at the end of his term, in the middle ...
Obama's Afghan Strategy Assailed
Post Date: 2011-06-09 03:23:38 by socalv8
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WASHINGTON - As he mulls how many U.S. troops to pull out of Afghanistan starting next month, President Obama is coming under increasing pressure from Democratic lawmakers as well as a growing number of Republicans to reexamine his war strategy after the killing of Osama bin Laden. The president's nominee to be the new U.S. ambassador to Kabul, veteran diplomat Ryan Crocker, felt the heat Wednesday. Senate Foreign Relations Committee members of both parties used Crocker's confirmation hearing to vent frustration with the persistent violence in Afghanistan nearly a decade after the U.S. invasion, and to question the size of the U.S. military contingent there and what nearly $19 ...
Obama a "Terrorist"
Post Date: 2011-06-08 20:19:47 by jwpegler
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We know of at least one Chicago rapper who won't be getting an invite to the White House anytime soon. Lupe Fiasco called out President Barack Obama this week, calling his fellow Chicagoan "the biggest terrorist." The comments came in an interview with CBS News Tuesday while discussing the political content of his music. "My fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. I'm trying to fight the terrorism that's actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff the U.S. government allows to happen. The foreign policies that we have in place in different countries ...
China Warns US: "Stop Playing With Fire" On Debt Ceiling
Post Date: 2011-06-08 10:54:53 by Brian S
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The U.S. is "playing with fire" over its debt ceiling debate and, "there is a risk a U.S. debt default may happen," according to Chinese central bank advisor Li Daokui. Speaking at a conference in Beijing, Daokui said, according to Reuters: "If a default happens, the Chinese government should have a consultation with the U.S. government. China can promise that we will not sell our holdings of U.S. debt, but the United States must also promise that you will not hurt our interests by guaranteeing the safety of our investment... I really worry about the risks of a U.S. debt default, which I think may lead to a decline in the dollar's value." This is the first ...
Defiant Iran Plans Big Rise In Nuclear Enrichment
Post Date: 2011-06-08 10:40:07 by Brian S
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TEHRAN | Wed Jun 8, 2011 9:07am EDT (Reuters) - Iran will shift its production of higher grade uranium to an underground bunker and triple its production capacity, it said on Wednesday in a defiant response to accusations it is trying to produce atomic bombs. "This year, under the supervision of the (International Atomic Energy) Agency, we will transfer 20 percent enrichment from the Natanz site to the Fordow site and we will increase the production capacity by three times," the head of Iran's atomic energy agency, Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, told reporters after a cabinet meeting, the state broadcaster IRIB reported. Iran only disclosed the existence of the Fordow site, in a ...
Margaret Thatcher to Sarah Palin: don't bother dropping by
Post Date: 2011-06-07 16:20:20 by Skip Intro
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Allies of former prime minister regard darling of Tea Party movement as a frivolous figure unworthy of an audience Sarah Palin wants to show to the Republican right that she is the true keeper of the Ronald Reagan flame by meeting the late president's closest ally on the world stage. A meeting with Margaret Thatcher in the centenary year of Reagan's birth would be the perfect way of launching her bid for the Republican nomination for the 2012 US presidential election. This is what Palin told Christina Lamb in the Sunday Times: I am going to Sudan in July and hope to stop in England on the way. I am just hoping Mrs Thatcher is well enough to see me as I so admire her. It ...
FDR'S D-Day speech
Post Date: 2011-06-06 20:27:21 by Mad Dog
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My Fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far. And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer: Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity. Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith. They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and ...
President Reagan's Speech at Pointe de Hoc, Normandy Ronald Reagan -- Pointe de Hoc, Normandy, June 6, 1984 (The 40th anniversary of D-Day)
Post Date: 2011-06-06 19:17:04 by Mad Dog
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Ronald Reagan -- Pointe de Hoc, Normandy, June 6, 1984 (The 40th anniversary of D-Day) We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history. We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France. The air is soft, but forty years ago at this moment, the air ...
Remembering D-Day [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-06-06 16:21:26 by Mad Dog
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Today is the 67th anniversary of the Anglo-American landings at Normandy on D-Day. Like a well told tale, the invasion of France has become lore. Movies such as “Saving Private Ryan” and the HBO series “Band of Brothers” provide a reference point to the violence of war. But as we watch these scenes, we are all Monday morning quarterbacks; knowing how history played out, and that the sacrifices on the field of battle cumulatively led to victory. But the people fighting those battles six decades ago didn’t know that. For them, how the war would end was very much an open question. How they acted and what they did, was the ultimate tool of decision. Indeed, at ...
Decline and fall of the American empire
Post Date: 2011-06-06 15:35:02 by Happy Quanzaa
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The economic powerhouse of the 20th century emerged stronger from the Depression. But faced with cultural decay, structural weaknesses and reliance on finance, can the US do it again? Dust-bowl refugees walk towards Los Angeles during the Great Depression. House priceshave now fallen further than in the 1930s. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis America clocked up a record last week. The latest drop in house prices meant that the cost of real estate has fallen by 33% since the peak – even bigger than the 31% slide seen when John Steinbeck was writing The Grapes of Wrath. Unemployment has not returned to Great Depression levels but at 9.1% of the workforce it is still at levels that will ...
UK Spies to Terrorists: Make Cupcakes Not War
Post Date: 2011-06-04 16:55:30 by Mad Dog
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LONDON - Britain's spy agencies have a new message for terrorists: make cupcakes, not war. Intelligence agents managed to hack into the extremist Inspire magazine, replacing its bombmaking instructions with a recipe for cupcakes. It's the first time the agents sabotaged the English-language magazine linked to U.S.-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, an extremist accused in several recent terror plots. The quarterly online magazine, which is sent to websites and email addresses as a pdf file, had offered an original page titled "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom" in one of its editions last year. The magazine's pages were corrupted, however, and the instructions ...
'No Calm In Mideast As Long As Israel Exists'
Post Date: 2011-06-04 15:00:01 by Brian S
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday repeated his assertion that there will be no tranquility in the Middle East as long as Tehran's archenemy, Israel, continues to exist. "As long as the Zionist regime exists, if only on a small piece of land in Palestine, the region will not see tranquility" he said to a crowd gathered at the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on the eve of the 22nd anniversary of the revolutionary leader's death. "So all the people of the region shall move towards the disappearance of American domination in the region and the disappearance of the Zionist regime," Ahmadinejad said in the speech, which was broadcast ...
What Must We Defend?
Post Date: 2011-06-03 20:29:45 by jwpegler
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“We need to be honest with the president, with the Congress, with the American people” about the consequences of cutting the defense budget, said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in his valedictory policy address to the American Enterprise Institute. “(A) smaller military, no matter how superb, will be able to go fewer places and do fewer things.” Gates seeks to ignite a debate the country seems reluctant to have. With a federal budget running out of balance by 10 percent of gross domestic product, what are we Americans willing to sacrifice? What are we willing to forego? What are we willing to cut? The biggest budget items are Social Security, Medicare and defense. ...
Rightists In Jerusalem: Muhammad Is Dead, Butcher Arabs
Post Date: 2011-06-03 19:56:53 by Brian S
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Dozens of right-wing activists marching through Jerusalem Wednesday were filmed chanting inflammatory messages and singing provocative songs in the capital, including “Muhammad is dead,” “May your village burn,” “Death to leftists,” and “Butcher the Arabs.” The disturbing utterances were made during the traditional “Flag Dance” on the occasion of Jerusalem Day, which drew tens of thousands of Israelis to the capital to celebrate its unification following the 1967 Six-Day War. The offensive chants and songs can be clearly heard in the video, filmed by members of the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement. Elsewhere, Arab residents hurled stones ...
Global Financial Markets Tremble As Bad Economic News Continues To Pour In
Post Date: 2011-06-02 11:41:30 by Capitalist Eric
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As the U.S. economy starts to slow down once again, global financial markets are beginning to tremble. Over the past couple of weeks, all kinds of bad economic news has been pouring in. The ADP jobs report was a "disaster", the housing numbers are dismal, manufacturing has slowed way down and consumer confidence is dropping like a rock. The Democrats and the Republicans are bickering over the debt ceiling and this is causing a lot of uncertainty as well. All of this bad news is starting to spook investors. On Wednesday, the Dow was down 279 points and the NASDAQ was down 65 points. It was the worst day of the year for the Dow, and many are wondering what is going to happen next if ...
Americans Demand Justice Department Regulate AIPAC as Israeli Foreign Agent
Post Date: 2011-06-01 12:20:35 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON, May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On May 23 activists drawn from more than 100 organizations demanded the U.S. Department of Justice regulate the American Israel Public Affairs Committee as an agent of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On May 18, 2011 Heather Hunt, chief of the Registration Unit of the Counterespionage Division, responded to a letter "requesting a meeting with the Attorney General to discuss matters relating to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and its possible obligation to register pursuant to the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938…" Hunt solicited "additional information" asking ...
Iran cleric: Killing Israeli children OK
Post Date: 2011-06-01 08:23:19 by A K A Stone
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Iranian Ayatollah endorses evil: Radical religious cleric known as President Ahmadinejad's spiritual mentor says attacks on Israeli civilians permissible, suicide bombings a Muslim duty Evil words in Islamic Republic: A senior Iranian cleric, who is known as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's spiritual mentor, urged followers to continue suicide attacks against Israelis, including children. Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah, considered one of the Islamic Republic's most radical clerics, issued a religious edict on his website whereby suicide attacks are not only legitimate but are a must for every Muslim, a special paper by the Middle East Media Research Institute shows. The ...
Alleged Trade With Iran Embarrasses Israel
Post Date: 2011-05-31 19:15:39 by Brian S
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Tel Aviv - The revelations could hardly be more embarrassing. One of Israel's biggest, richest conglomerates is linked with trade to the Jewish state's arch enemy, the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ofer Group Holdings, a giant privately-owned group, which owns and operates a large maritime fleet, and is also active in real estate, banking, and high tech, was named by the US State Department as having sanctions slapped on it for its role in the September 2010 sale of a tanker valued at 8.65 million dollars to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL.) Also targeted for sanctions was Tanker Pacific, which a state Department spokesman said was a subsidiary of Ofer Group ...
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