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China’s Communist Regime Disappears Critics
Post Date: 2011-04-25 12:50:38 by CZ82
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China’s Communist Regime Disappears Critics April 25, 2011 The murderous communist regime ruling China has been cracking down on opponents in recent weeks and months, disappearing dozens of the nation’s most prominent human-rights activists and lawyers. While the world is watching, the Chinese government continues to intensify its clamp down on critics with zealous brutality and vengeance in what experts say is one of the fiercest episodes of repression in years. Among the most prominent to be abducted was Ai Weiwei, probably China’s best-known artist internationally. He had been embarrassing the regime for years, suffering brutal beatings at the hands of China’s ...
Who dares...break into a van full of SAS soldiers?
Post Date: 2011-04-25 12:37:23 by calcon
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TEENAGE thieves targeting vans parked on a council estate forced open the doors of one - and were confronted by four SAS men on a stakeout. Two of the Who Dares Wins heroes stayed put while the other two chased the panic-stricken tearaways and gave them "a bit of a slap". The SAS surveillanced team was on a night-time counter-terrorism training exercise in Manchester. A source said: "The lads each had a machine gun and a side pistol with live ammunition to make it realistic. They saw these scrotes coming for some time. "They were trying their luck on every van in the estate, looking for tools they could pinch. "One of the team was resting, one on standby, one ...
Age of America nears end
Post Date: 2011-04-25 09:52:21 by jwpegler
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For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China. And it’s a lot closer than you may think. According to the latest IMF official forecasts, China’s economy will surpass that of America in real terms in 2016 — just five years from now. Put that in your calendar. It provides a painful context for the budget wrangling taking place in Washington, D.C., right now. It raises enormous questions about what the international security system is going to look like in just a handful of years. And it casts a deepening cloud over both the U.S. dollar and ...
France’s Immigration Lessons For America
Post Date: 2011-04-24 08:45:54 by CZ82
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France’s Immigration Lessons For America by Rachel Marsden, 04/24/2011 Republican Arizona Governor Jan Brewer may not know it, but she has a soul mate in her efforts to control her state’s immigration problems in light of federal government inaction. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has also faced accusations of racism and fascism in defending the interests of the territory he was elected to protect and serve. Like Brewer, he’s struggling with a legislative straightjacket imposed by a higher level of government – in his case, the European Union. If Brewer has been attacked, Sarkozy has arguably seen far worse. The lesson? Just keep going. As has been the case since ...
The Chinese Role Model Collapses on the Progressives
Post Date: 2011-04-24 07:51:50 by CZ82
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The Chinese Role Model Collapses on the Progressives By Ed Lasky For years, China's high-speed rail and green energy programs have been portrayed as miracles that America must follow to remain "in the game." During the last two years and counting, American taxpayers have been put on the hook for tens of billions of dollars as Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress promote agendas that would supposedly emulate China and lead us to Nirvana. What is the trouble with this picture? It has been one giant mirage. The Washington Post runs a column by one of their finest journalists, Charles Lane, that honestly portrays the Chinese high-speed train project as being a high-speed ...
Dad who split up fight in McDonald's shot dead
Post Date: 2011-04-23 20:18:45 by A K A Stone
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A DAD-of-four who split up a fight in a McDonald’s was shot dead moments after being told he wouldn’t see the morning.
Raymond Mitchell, 34, had only popped into the restaurant to buy a hot chocolate.
But he apparently caused offence after splitting up two men fighting in the queue.
One of them, who had several gold teeth, shouted at Raymond: “You are gonna die tonight, you are not gonna see the morning.”
The thug is then said to have phoned an accomplice to fetch a gun, yelling into his mobile: “Bring me that thing.”
Raymond left the 24-hour McDonald’s but was chased into a cul-de-sac. The gun was then delivered and Mr Mitchell was beaten and pistol-whipped before being shot ...
Carving Up Pakistan: The Balochistan Gambit
Post Date: 2011-04-22 22:48:53 by A K A Stone
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Bangkok, Thailand April 22, 2011 - With NATO providing Al Qaeda air cover in Libya as they commit an array of egregious war crimes in their bid to seize the country, the last shred of legitimacy for America's official narrative regarding their war on the Afghan-Pakistani border disappears before our eyes. However, a more rational explanation for the seemingly irrational campaign of frequent General Atomic* Predator drone attacks on Pakistani soil is not only on the table, but has been put there by the global corporate-financier oligarchs themselves. To understand US-Pakistan relations within the context of the entirely fake "War on Terror" is impossible. Al Qaeda is merely ...
DEADLINE LIVE EXCLUSIVE: Los Zetas Outmaneuver Mexican Military; Burn Border Town to the Ground
Post Date: 2011-04-22 22:37:54 by A K A Stone
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Yesterday, the criminal organization known as Los Zetas, managed to outmaneuver the Mexican military and penetrated Gulf Drug Cartel territory. In what appeared to be a carefully planned operation, Los Zetas lured the military outside the border town of Miguel Aleman, Mexico to fight them in rural areas and back roads While the military was pre-occupied trying to catch the criminals outside the border town, several Zeta convoys moved in from the west.
An anonymous phone call was received by the military, mentioning that a battle between the Gulf Drug Cartel and Los Zetas was about to take place in Miguel Aleman. When the military turned its convoys around to head back to town, they ...
The Green Nazis
Post Date: 2011-04-22 15:05:35 by CZ82
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The Green Nazis By Mark Musser One of the most intriguing facts of the Nazi Party membership rolls is how many of its adherents belonged to what today would be considered the green movement. Even many ‘greens' who were not Nazi Party members, like Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003), the infamous propaganda filmmaker for the Third Reich, became caught up in the new movement. Nazi biologist Walther Schoenichen asserted that National Socialism was the political fulfillment of more 100 years of German Romanticism. With its strong emphasis upon celebrating the authenticity of the German folk people (das volk) indigenously rooted in the natural landscape of their homeland in great contrast ...
Israel: New Gaza flotilla has ties to Hamas, terrorist organizations
Post Date: 2011-04-21 22:20:08 by A K A Stone
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Israel warned the United Nations Security Council on Thursday not to allow a new flotilla to sail to Gaza, saying that the flotilla organizers had "ties to Hamas and other terrorist organizations." Another flotilla to Gaza is being planned for May, one year after Israel's deadly raid on the aid flotilla that sailed from Turkey. The new flotilla being planned is larger than the last one, with 15 ships that will transport over 1,000 people in an attempt to break Israel's naval blockade on the Strip. While speaking to the UN on Thursday, Israel's UN Ambassador Meron Reuben said, "Numerous participants engaged in the planning of this flotilla have made very ...
Ahmadinejad grooms chief-of-staff to take over as Iran's president
Post Date: 2011-04-21 22:15:43 by A K A Stone
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A close ally of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who favours cultural openness and opposes greater clerical involvement in politics, is being groomed as a possible successor to the Iranian president when he steps down in two years time. Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, Ahmadinejad's chief-of-staff, is positioning himself as a candidate who will champion a nationalist rather than a theological narrative of Iran. Mashaei, whose daughter married Ahmadinejad's son, has become the most controversial political figure in Iran, provoking harsh criticism from the conservative establishment, including the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Hardliners close to Khamenei have accused Mashaei of ...
Cuba says it's not to blame for loss of barge carrying $2 million in aid to quake-torn Haiti
Post Date: 2011-04-21 22:10:13 by A K A Stone
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HAVANA — Cuba's Transportation Ministry on Thursday denied claims by a U.S. housing company that the island nation is to blame for the loss of a barge carrying humanitarian aid to Haiti. A Cuban tugboat received a distress call from the "Muheet" just before midnight Nov. 30, and responded promptly, the ministry said in a statement. It says the tug began towing the ship and its two barges, but high seas prompted both captains to decide to head for port with the ship and return later for the barges. One was deemed a total loss while the other was salvaged, the statement said. It added that an inspection found expired permits and insufficient anchor capability. ...
Venezuelan trade plans to backfire?
Post Date: 2011-04-21 22:08:04 by A K A Stone
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Like the South American independence hero Simón Bolívar, his modern-day disciple Hugo Chávez dreams of unifying the region, to stand stronger against the “imperialist threat”. But if trade is anything to go by – an excellent way to bring regions closer together – the success of Chávez’s “Bolivarian revolution” has so far been mixed. This Friday 22nd April, Venezuela’s membership in the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), the regional trade bloc now comprising just Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, finally expires. It is being described as a “death blow” to the group, with trade between Venezuela and Colombia ...
War Monger-In-Chief Obama kinetically escalates in Libya, sends in the kinetic drones
Post Date: 2011-04-21 19:47:22 by Happy Quanzaa
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Obama has OK'd use of drones in Libya, Gates saysU.S. President Barack Obama has approved the use of armed Predator drones in Libya, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday. Gates told CNN the unmanned Predators would allow for "some precision capability" against the forces of longtime Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, and will offer a "modest contribution" to NATO efforts to support Libyan rebels. NATO, meanwhile, has signaled it may ramp up air strikes on Gadhafi's regime. NATO issued a new warning to Libyan civilians to stay away from military areas - foreshadowing plans for attacks on targets seen as strategically significant in stopping the ...
'Any nation will do': New book reveals Barack Obama wanted to be prime minister of Indonesia at tender age of 9
Post Date: 2011-04-21 07:51:58 by Sebastian
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Aiming high: Barack Obama pictured as a young boy with his mother Ann Durham, who brought him up partly in IndonesiaIt turns out Barack Obama was dreaming big right from an early age - at just nine-years-old he announced he was going to be the prime minister of Indonesia.The episode from a new biography of the president's mother, Stanley Ann Durham, reveals the roots of a hunger for power which has driven Mr Obama's heady rise from an eccentric upbringing in Hawaii and Indonesia to the White House.It will bring a wry smile to the faces of 'birthers', who are not satisfied he was born in the U.S.In A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother, author ...
Apple Sucks Out The Ass. IPhone Spies On You
Post Date: 2011-04-20 22:03:26 by A K A Stone
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Security researchers have discovered that Apple's iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner's computer when the two are synchronised.
The file contains the latitude and longitude of the phone's recorded coordinates along with a timestamp, meaning that anyone who stole the phone or the computer could discover details about the owner's movements using a simple program.
For some phones, there could be almost a year's worth of data stored, as the recording of data seems to have started with Apple's iOS 4 update to the phone's operating system, released in June 2010.
"Apple has made it possible for ...
Only 26 per cent of Iowa Republicans believe Obama was born in U.S.
Post Date: 2011-04-19 21:23:19 by A K A Stone
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Only a quarter of Republicans in critical caucus-state Iowa believe that President Obama was born in the U.S. A massive 48 per cent of GOP voters in the Hawkeye State, who said that they will vote in the first caucus of the presidential election race, said they doubted the President’s place of birth. Some 26 per cent said they believed the President, 26 per cent said they were not sure. The poll gives a boost to Donald Trump’s ‘birther crusade’, which has seen the reality star and entrepreneur push widely discredited questions about Obama’s nationality back into the national spotlight. In the Public Policy Polling survey of 419 usual Iowa Republican caucus ...
Housing Starts in U.S. Increased to 549,000 in March, Exceeding Forecasts
Post Date: 2011-04-19 14:35:17 by The Blue Cat
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A gain in March housing starts failed to make up for ground lost the prior month, as U.S. home builders continue to struggle almost two years into the economic recovery. Work began on 549,000 houses at an annual pace, up 7.2 percent from the prior month and exceeding the 520,000 median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, figures from the Commerce Department showed today in Washington. Starts fell 19 percent in February to the lowest level in almost two years. Housing, which pushed the economy into the recession, remains the weak link in the recovery and continues to weigh on consumer spending as home prices fall. The prospect of more foreclosures and joblessness forecast to ...
Libyan Rebel War Crimes: The Videos The U.S Government doesn't want you to see
Post Date: 2011-04-19 13:37:29 by A K A Stone
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Yesterday we published footage from a town destroyed by Qaddafi’s rockets: Libyan Rebels Risk Death To Bring You This Video. But even as Qaddafi commits atrocities, the rebels are engaged in some of the same violence. And Washington has been forced to look the other way. We received the following email complaining of biased coverage. The reader links to a dozen videos showing atrocities committed by the rebels. WARNING, THE VIDEOS ARE EXTREMELY GRAPHIC. Dear Sir, I am surprised with your title… It seems to me there was no risk because everyday the Libyan Rebels post at the you-tube videos taken from their mobile on what they do to soldiers, civilians who do not follow their ...
Nature to Get Legal Rights in Bolivia
Post Date: 2011-04-18 22:12:22 by A K A Stone
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After decades of exile to environmentalism’s legal fringes, the notion that natural systems could have legal rights is receiving serious attention. Bolivia’s Law of Mother Earth is set to pass. On Wednesday the United Nations will discuss a proposed treaty based on the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth (.pdf), which was drafted by environmentalists last year. Both mandate legal recognition of ecosystems’ right to exist. It’s highly unlikely that the United Nations would pass any such treaty in the foreseeable future, and the discussion has been criticized as a time-wasting political maneuver. But the intellectual argument for nature’s rights ...
The Terminators: drone strikes prompt MoD to ponder ethics of killer robots
Post Date: 2011-04-18 21:28:17 by A K A Stone
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The growing use of unmanned aircraft in combat situations raises huge moral and legal issues, and threatens to make war more likely as armed robots take over from human beings, according to an internal study by the Ministry of Defence. The report warns of the dangers of an "incremental and involuntary journey towards a Terminator-like reality", referring to James Cameron's 1984 movie, in which humans are hunted by robotic killing machines. It says the pace of technological development is accelerating at such a rate that Britain must quickly establish a policy on what will constitute "acceptable machine behaviour". "It is essential that before unmanned systems ...
U.S. Taxpayers on the Hook for Portugal Bailout
Post Date: 2011-04-18 17:32:51 by CZ82
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U.S. Taxpayers on the Hook for Portugal Bailout by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) Recently, Portugal officially requested a $116 billion bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. This makes Portugal the third European nation to seek such a bailout in the past year (Greece got $157 billion; Ireland $122 billion). What most people don’t realize is that the U.S. is the largest contributor to the IMF. Therefore, U.S. taxpayers are paying for Portugal’s bailout which – like the earlier bailouts of Greece and Ireland – was caused by too much government spending and borrowing. Last year, here at BigGovernment.com I warned how the Obama ...
Obama kinetically seeking sanctuary for Qaddafi
Post Date: 2011-04-17 11:08:28 by Happy Quanzaa
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U.S. and Allies Seek a Refuge for Qaddafi WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has begun seeking a country, most likely in Africa, that might be willing to provide shelter to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi if he were forced out of Libya, even as a new wave of intelligence reports suggest that no rebel leader has emerged as a credible successor to the Libyan dictator. The intense search for a country to accept Colonel Qaddafi has been conducted quietly by the United States and its allies, even though the Libyan leader has shown defiance in recent days, declaring that he has no intention of yielding to demands that he leave his country, and intensifying his bombardment of the rebel city of ...
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