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Japan pensioners volunteer to tackle nuclear crisis
Post Date: 2011-05-31 18:35:43 by CZ82
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Japan pensioners volunteer to tackle nuclear crisis By Roland Buerk, BBC News, Tokyo A group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners are volunteering to tackle the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power station. The Skilled Veterans Corps, as they call themselves, is made up of retired engineers and other professionals, all over the age of 60. They say they should be facing the dangers of radiation, not the young. It was while watching the television news that Yasuteru Yamada decided it was time for his generation to stand up. No longer could he be just an observer of the struggle to stabilise the Fukushima nuclear plant. The retired engineer is reporting back for duty at the age of 72, ...
Hay: David Cameron and Barack Obama 'no clue' on terror
Post Date: 2011-05-29 12:46:40 by socalv8
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A former senior member of the CIA has claimed David Cameron and Barack Obama "don't have a clue" about dealing with the war on terror. At the Hay Festival in Powys, Michael Scheuer, ex-head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit, said the conflict in the Middle East was caused by US foreign policy. He said extremists had no interest in western culture, but hatred stemmed from action in places like Afghanistan. Asked what advice he would give Mr Obama, he said to "tell the truth". Speaking on the fourth day of the Hay-on-Wye Festival, Mr Scheuer said: "American politicians, and I'm afraid listening to Mr Cameron this week, there's not a clue about what's ...
Must Israel Make Concessions in Advance of September UN Brawl
Post Date: 2011-05-28 16:38:58 by CZ82
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Must Israel Make Concessions in Advance of September UN Brawl? Jonathan S. Tobin 05.27.2011 - 3:28 PM In the wake of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s successful trip to Washington, Israel’s critics are in a grouchy mood. President Obama failed in his effort to ambush Netanyahu—they can’t deny that—and the result was a reaffirmation of American support for Israel that effectively ends any further diplomatic freelancing by the White House. But unhappy Israel-bashers claim it doesn’t matter. They say Israel is still isolated diplomatically and will be forced—whether or not Bibi’s fans like it—to capitulate to international territorial demands ...
O takes a Lech-ing~Snubbed by Solidarity hero in Polish visit
Post Date: 2011-05-28 09:11:49 by Happy Quanzaa
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Lech Walesa WASHINGTON -- President Obama wraps up his European tour in Poland today, but he won't find any solidarity with the nation's one-time leader. Lech Walesa, the former Polish president and Solidarity movement founder, snubbed Obama on the last day of his four-nation trip, refusing to meet with his fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner. "I expect this meeting would only amount to a photo opportunity," Walesa, the heroic figure who helped lead his country to freedom from the Soviet bloc, told Agence France-Presse. "It's difficult to tell journalists what you'd like to say to the president of a superpower. This time, I won't tell him, I won't meet ...
Obama is incompetent and averse to taking any smart advice
Post Date: 2011-05-27 11:20:16 by no gnu taxes
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President Obama is in Europe, supposedly trying to dissuade the Europeans from participating in the Palestinians’ attempt to gain statehood without offering peace to Israel. At his press conference he, no surprise to his critics, revealed he really doesn’t have a clue how to proceed when he described the major issues between the parties: One is the issue of what would the territorial boundaries of a new Palestinian state look like. Number two: how could Israel feel confident that its security needs would be met? Number three: how would the issue of Palestinian refugees be resolved; and number four, the issue of Jerusalem. The last two questions are extraordinarily emotional. They ...
Freedom of information laws are used to harass scientists
Post Date: 2011-05-26 17:39:20 by CZ82
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Freedom of information laws are used to harass scientists, says Nobel laureate Sir Paul Nurse says climate scientists are being targeted by campaigns of requests designed to slow down their research Sir Paul Nurse, who won the Nobel prize for medicine in 2001, says information laws are being abused to intimidate scientists. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian Freedom of information laws are being misused to harass scientists and should be re-examined by the government, according to the president of the Royal Society. Nobel laureate Sir Paul Nurse told the Guardian that some climate scientists were being targeted by organised campaigns of requests for data and other research ...
DNC chair argues Obama isn't losing support of Jewish voters
Post Date: 2011-05-26 12:33:39 by socalv8
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Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Thursday that it is a “gross overstatement” to suggest that President Obama did serious damage to his support from Jewish voters when he proposed last week that Israel’s 1967 borders should be the starting point for peace talks with Palestinians. She also lashed out at a Republican Jewish organization that has been critical of her, denouncing what she said was the group’s decision to put partisanship ahead of its support for Israel. Wasserman Schultz, the first Jewish woman to represent Florida in Congress, acknowledged that Obama’s speech had caused some damage with Jewish voters, but she ...
Destro: My compromise idea for solving the Israeli-Palestinian "Right of Return"
Post Date: 2011-05-25 12:04:47 by Godwinson
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Since some of you think I am Destro, I found a recent posting of his and I think it is rather genius if I do say so myself. Destro: My compromise idea for solving the Israeli-Palestinian "Right of Return". First for a background read Palestinian right of return The problem in a nutshell is that Israel will not allow the almost 1 million Palestinian Arabs to return to Israel no matter what the border agreement is reached. Israeli negotiations have proposed a compromise where the compensate the Arabs for the theft of their property (financed by the USA and Europe?). The Arabs will have none of that and in fact have the recent ruling of international law on their side when ...
No Dog in That Fight, Mr President?
Post Date: 2011-05-25 06:27:24 by CZ82
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No Dog in That Fight, Mr President? By Christopher Chantrill Scott Johnson at Powerline, like many others, was unimpressed with President Obama's May 29 Mideast speech. The president fails "to distinguish properly between friends and enemies," he wrote. Let us drive a little deeper and ask a question. Why would the president announce in his speech, before negotiations had even started between Israel and the Palestinians, that he believed "the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps"? To put his unilateral concession--what our labor union friends would call a "give-back"--in perspective, let us ask ...
Full Text Of Speech By PM Netanyahu To A Joint Meeting Of The U.S. Congress
Post Date: 2011-05-25 06:20:00 by CZ82
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Full Text Of Speech By PM Netanyahu To A Joint Meeting Of The U.S. Congress (Tuesday, May 24th, 2011) I am deeply honored by your warm welcome. And I am deeply honored that you have given me the opportunity to address Congress a second time. Mr. Vice President, do you remember the time we were the new kids in town? And I do see a lot of old friends here. And I do see a lot of new friends of Israel here. Democrats and Republicans alike. Advertise On YWN » Israel has no better friend than America. And America has no better friend than Israel. We stand together to defend democracy. We stand together to advance peace. We stand together to fight terrorism. Congratulations America, ...
Study shows girls increasingly aborted in India
Post Date: 2011-05-24 22:27:50 by Ferret Mike
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NEW DELHI (AP) -- More and more Indian families with one girl are aborting subsequent pregnancies when prenatal tests show another female is on the way, according to a new study. The decline in the number of girls is more pronounced in richer and better educated households, according to research published Tuesday in the medical journal Lancet. Those numbers show that a 1996 law that bans testing for the gender of a fetus has been largely ineffective, the study said. In India, there is a huge cultural preference for boys in large part because of the enormous expense in marrying off girls and paying elaborate dowries. Officials have acknowledged that current laws have proved inadequate at ...
Barry H. Obama Has No Idea What Year It Is
Post Date: 2011-05-24 15:15:46 by Happy Quanzaa
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This is how President Obama signed the guestbook at Westminster Abbey earlier today, where he got a tour from the Very Reverend Dr. John Hall and laid a wreath on the Grave of the Unknown Warrior. It is a great privilege to commemorate our common heritage, and common sacrifice. Barack Obama 24 May 2008 It was really nice until he got the date wrong by three years. Granted, 2008 was a great year for him, and we might try to live it for as long as possible, too, if we were him. Also, though, he may have had a stroke. Related: President Obama Waving Grudgingly A History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things The Psychological Warfare of Sasha and Malia Obama Update: For those who ...
Peter Fonda encourages his grandchildren to take up arms against President Barack Obama
Post Date: 2011-05-24 09:54:07 by A K A Stone
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Peter Fonda, the star of Easy Rider, says he is training his grandchildren to use rifles for a conflict with President Barack Obama. Lars von Trier, who was banned from Cannes for praising Hitler, was not the only one making unsavoury comments at the film festival. Peter Fonda, the star of Easy Rider, suggested to Mandrake that he was encouraging his grandchildren to shoot President Barack Obama. “I’m training my grandchildren to use long-range rifles,” said the actor, 71. “For what purpose? Well, I’m not going to say the words 'Barack Obama’, but …” He added, enigmatically: “It’s more of a thought process than an actuality, but we ...
Obama's bomb-proof car beaten by a bump
Post Date: 2011-05-24 02:01:44 by socalv8
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It's a car that has been built to withstand bullets and grenade attacks - but US President Barack Obama's limousine, it seems, can't handle bumpy driveways. The low-riding, six-metre-long Cadillac became stuck on a section of ramp while trying to exit the US embassy during the President's tour of Ireland yesterday. The General Motors-built limo, which is nicknamed "The Beast" and weighs several tonnes more than a regular car due to the layers of protective shielding built into its panels, scraped to a halt in front of a crowd of spectators. Video shot by members of the crowd shows the car crunching to a stop, with the crowd collectively gasping as the car ...
China 'asks USA to respect Pak sovereignty'
Post Date: 2011-05-23 22:46:32 by A K A Stone
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Press Trust of India ISLAMABAD, 19 MAY: In the wake of the US raid in Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden, China has “warned in unequivocal terms that any attack on Pakistan would be construed as an attack on China”, a media report claimed today. The warning was formally conveyed by the Chinese foreign minister at last week's China-US strategic dialogue and economic talks in Washington, The News daily quoted diplomatic sources as saying. China also advised the USa to “respect Pakistan's sovereignty and solidarity”, the report said. Chinese Premier Mr Wen Jiabao informed his Pakistani counterpart Mr Yousuf Raza Gilani about the matters taken up with the US ...
Strauss-Kahn, IMF Scam Fails, the Debt Crisis Crescendo
Post Date: 2011-05-23 14:23:23 by Capitalist Eric
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When Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then director of the IMF, fled his Manhattan hotel room in a vain attempt to take an Air France plane to Europe, Roman Polanski style, he inexplicably left his cellphone in the room where he had alledley attempted to rape a hotel maid. The cellphone was of course loaded with a list of very interesting names and numbers, pored over by New York police and Federal US officials. Why was Stauss-Kahn in New York ? He went there instead of flying direct from Washington to Berlin, first stop on a European tour and first meeting set with chancellor Merkel of Germany. To reassure Merkel that the next bailout of Greece would cost little to German finances, that the euro ...
Bin Laden Compound Assault, How Many U.S. Navy Seals Died? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-05-23 13:52:27 by Capitalist Eric
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In a sensational and explosive TV report, the Pakistani News Agency has provided a live interview with an eye witness to the US attack on the alleged compound of Osama bin Laden. The eye witness, Mohammad Bashir, describes the event as it unfolded. Of the three helicopters, "there was only one that landed the men and came back to pick them up, but as he [the helicopter] was picking them up, it blew away and caught fire." The witness says that there were no survivors, just dead bodies and pieces of bodies everywhere. "We saw the helicopter burning, we saw the dead bodies, then everything was removed and now there is nothing." I always wondered how a helicopter could ...
The Hypocrisy of Hosni Mu-Barack Obama
Post Date: 2011-05-23 13:44:09 by Capitalist Eric
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Our President Has Officially Gone Full Retard With all due apologies to intellectually-challenged people - this clown lacks the mental acuity of a fruit fly and is an unabashed liar besides. From today’s “Middle East” speech....For six months, we have witnessed an extraordinary change take place in the Middle East and North Africa. Square by square; town by town; country by country; the people have risen up to demand their basic human rights.That includes rights like peaceful enjoyment of one’s home – the 4th Amendment, pretty much, either in form or substance, right? So that would make this a problem?Barnes contests that the trial court’s failure to advise the ...
Taliban leader Mullah Omar killed
Post Date: 2011-05-23 02:11:27 by socalv8
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KABUL (Xinhua) -- Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been killed in Pakistan, a private television channel reported Monday. "Mullah Omar was killed on way from Quetta to North Waziristan, " TOLO television said in its news bulletin. However, it did not provide details on how he was killed and by whom. Meanwhile, a security official confirmed the killing, saying, " it is correct that Mullah Omar has been killed." But he did not disclose details.
Obama and the 'Teutonic Shift' in the Middle East
Post Date: 2011-05-22 02:56:34 by socalv8
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One wonders if this is finally the week that the scales fall from the eyes of those Jews who voted for and supported Obama, not to mention these and other voters who hoodwinked themselves into believing that this man was some sort of brilliant new leader. The preamble to this week's Obama epic foreign policy blunder was the president's comment on May 10 in Austin that there was a "Teutonic shift" taking place in the Middle East. To me, the grandiose albeit risibly erroneous description signaled that Obama's narcissistic needs needed stoking with some bold new initiative which no one but such a genius as he is could imagine. The following day, someone in the White ...
In Oval Office, Bibi Offers History Lessons to Obama
Post Date: 2011-05-20 16:13:05 by socalv8
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to think he needed to educate President Obama on some issues today, so in the Oval Office he described in some detail to the president a history of the refugee problem in the region dating back 63 years, as well as his view on the need for Israel to be able to defend itself in the context of thousands of years of Jewish suffering. “We don't have a lot of margin for error,” Netanyahu said to the president. “Because, Mr. President, history will not give the Jewish people another chance.” Click for Full Text!
Railways face radical overhaul to give 'better deal for all' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-05-20 10:16:01 by go65
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Commuters face the biggest shakeup of the railways since the ignominious Railtrack era after a government-commissioned report called for £1bn in costs to be stripped out of the industry – and for it to give all involved a "better deal". An overhaul of the fares system was the most eye-catching recommendation in a study by Sir Roy McNulty, former chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority. The report into rail industry costs also outlined changes to slash the £5.2bn state subsidy, including phasing out ticket offices in small stations, removing conductors and giving train operators control of maintenance on some routes. McNulty said fares in the UK were 30% higher ...
Obama to aides: Netanyahu will never do what it takes to achieve Mideast peace
Post Date: 2011-05-20 02:13:35 by socalv8
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U.S. President Barack Obama does not think Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will never make the concessions necessary to achieve a Middle East peace deal, the New York Times cited Obama aides as saying on Friday. The comments attributed to associates of the U.S. president comes amid what is turning become into a veritable war of words between Israel and the U.S., following Obama's Mideast strategy speech on Thursday in which the American leader voiced his support for a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders. Following Obama's speech, Netanyahu, who is set to meet the U.S. president later today, said Thursday that Israel would object to any withdrawal to "indefensible" ...
Public Service Announcement : Family Radio Predicts the End, May 21, 2011 at 6:00 P.M., EDT
Post Date: 2011-05-18 22:12:53 by Skip Intro
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Family Radio based in Oakland, Calfornia has predicted the end of the world will come this Saturday at 6 PM EDT. At that time those who saved will ascend into heaven, while those who aren't will be part of the rapture. Harold Camping, President of Family Radio which can be heard on WFME 94.7 FM in New York based the end time on bible verses. The last time Mr. Camping made a prediction of the end of the world was back in 1994. But after that time passed, Camping said his calculations were off.
Poster Comment:It's still not too late to leave all of your earthly belongings to me.
Obama to detail Mideast policy
Post Date: 2011-05-18 20:02:33 by socalv8
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Obama's speech, his first major address since the death of Osama bin Laden, is being described by the White House as an effort to assess the historic change sweeping the region in the so-called "Arab Spring." He plans to outline the political, economic and national security opportunities emerging for its people and for the United States. To foster those opportunities, the president will propose billions of dollars in economic help for Egypt and Tunisia as they set up governments to replace their autocratic leaders, both of whom were overthrown earlier this year. In Cairo, Obama sought to repair relations with the 1.5 billion followers of Islam across the world which had been ...
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