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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 ...
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 ...
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