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Libyan rebels accuse NATObama of leaving people of Misrata to die
Post Date: 2011-04-05 17:25:14 by Happy Quanzaa
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BENGHAZI, Libya -- The head of Libyan rebel forces, Abdel Fatah Yunis, accused NATO-led aircraft Tuesday of standing idly by while loyalist troops killed residents of the besieged third city of Misrata. NATO "is letting the people of Misrata die every day," Yunis told a news conference in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi. "If NATO waits one more week, there will be nothing left in Misrata," he added. "What is NATO doing?" he asked. "They are bombing here and there," while the city's residents are faced with "extermination." The last rebel-held bastion in the west of Libya, Misrata has been pounded by forces loyal to Moamar Ghadafi ...
Japan's ocean radiation hits 7.5 million times legal limit
Post Date: 2011-04-05 14:47:56 by Rek
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Japan's ocean radiation hits 7.5 million times legal limit High readings in fish prompt the government to establish a maximum level for safe consumption. April 5, 2011, 4:39 a.m. Reporting from Tokyo— The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday that it had found radioactive iodine at 7.5 million times the legal limit in a seawater sample taken near the facility, and government officials imposed a new health limit for radioactivity in fish. The reading of iodine-131 was recorded Saturday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. Another sample taken Monday found the level to be 5 million times the legal limit. The Monday samples also were found to contain ...
Arab Spring: The Israeli Factor
Post Date: 2011-04-05 13:44:51 by Hondo68
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Any analysis of the Middle East would be remiss without factoring in Israel. Israel has been playing a rather muted role in the unfolding globalist gambit - mainly because any Israeli involvement in supporting these staged revolutions would instantly taint them and ultimately derail them. Interestingly enough, the limited role Israel has been playing includes using this phenomenon, a political "touch of death," to target the various national oligarchies being swept from power. There are bad Israelis exploited and used by the globalists and there are good Israelis.But lumping them together as "bad" you carrywater for the globalists' "divide & conquer " ...
Obama pulls out kinetic military offensive planes from Libya: Pentagon
Post Date: 2011-04-05 12:52:16 by Happy Quanzaa
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US pulls out warplanes from Libya: Pentagon The US military on Monday withdrew its fighter jets from the international air campaign in Libya, officials said, after NATO asked Washington to keep up bombing raids for another 48 hours. The United States had planned to halt combat missions and Tomahawk cruise missile launches at the weekend but accepted a NATO request to continue the operations for another 48 hours until Monday. US combat sorties ended at 2200 GMT, with American warplanes on standby as NATO takes the lead, Pentagon spokesman Captain Darryn James said. After that, "US aviation assets are expected to cease strike sorties and will remain on an alert status if NATO ...
Americans Killed While Waiting To Cross Border (Tijuana, San Ysidro border crossing)
Post Date: 2011-04-05 12:36:16 by Hondo68
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the MMA fighter was one of two men gunned down in an execution-style killingA mixed martial arts fighter was one of two Americans gunned down in an execution-style killing near the San Ysidro border crossing Monday morning.Mexican authorities say Sergio Salcido Luna and Kevin Joel Romero were waiting in their company truck while waiting to cross into the U.S. before dawn.A gunman walked up to the white Mazda truck with California license plates and opened fire at least five times, killing both men as they sat in traffic.Investigators are still trying to determine a motive for the killing. Salcido, 25, was a professional fighter who began his career in MMA in Bakersfield.He also worked for a ...
China Dissident Crackdown Sparks Scant Outcry as Obama Distracted by Libya
Post Date: 2011-04-05 09:28:30 by Happy Quanzaa
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China Dissident Crackdown Sparks Scant Outcry as U.S. Distracted by Libya China’s latest crackdown on dissidents has drawn scant outcry in Washington, with U.S. officials distracted by military intervention in Libya and doubtful that public denunciations will change China’s behavior. The administration is “scared to death to speak out on very sensitive issues” that might offend China and turn them against U.S. policy on Libya, Rep. Randy Forbes, co-chairman of the Congressional China Caucus, said in an interview yesterday. On Capitol Hill, likewise, legislators are reluctant to devote energy to an issue that hasn’t grabbed the public’s attention and ...
Egyptian Islamists On The Rise: New ‘Modesty’ Laws For ‘Those Who Commit Immoral Acts’
Post Date: 2011-04-05 08:35:30 by Happy Quanzaa
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Muslim Brotherhood officials must be confident in their chances in this fall’s Egyptian parliamentary elections. David Miller of Media Line picked up an Egyptian newspaper report citing a member of the Brotherhood’s governing board calling for a squad of virtue police created to act against “those who commit immoral acts.” Issam Durbala’s vision aims to protect public virtue and modesty with “limited authorities,” Miller reports, which means something short of Saudi Arabia’s vice police. [Note: Miller identifies Durbala as a Brotherhood official, other sources place him in the Gama'a Al-Islamiya, or Islamic Group] Moderates and secularists in ...
5 slain in another bar attack in Juárez
Post Date: 2011-04-04 23:04:59 by A K A Stone
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A group of men threw fire bombs into a bar in Juárez and killed five people Friday night, officials said. That attack occurred after 10 people were shot and killed at another bar on Thursday. Chihuahua police officials on Saturday said the bodies of three men and two women were found by investigators at Las Barritas bar, near Oscar Flores Avenue and Francisco I. Madero Street in the Presa neighborhood. Officials said the attack took place about 10:30 p.m. Friday when a group of gunmen walked into the bar and started the fire. Officials did not say how many people were in the bar at the time. The bodies of the victims were found throughout the bar, officials said. Only one of the ...
Qaeda aqcuiring arms from Libya: Algerian source~Transforming Libya into a Somalia
Post Date: 2011-04-04 16:36:31 by Happy Quanzaa
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Al-Qaeda has allegedly acquired surface-to-air missiles in Libya ALGIERS (Reuters) The United States has raised concerns with the Libyan opposition about reports of al Qaeda obtaining weapons in eastern Libya, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said on Monday. "We are aware of these reports too and it has been one of the topics of our conversation with ... the opposition forces," Toner told reporters. "We have made very clear our concerns and they have ... pledged that they will look into it." A senior security source in neighboring Algeria told Reuters that Al-Qaeda is exploiting the conflict in Libya to acquire weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, and ...
Food and failed Arab states
Post Date: 2011-04-04 14:19:32 by Biff Tannen
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Even Islamists have to eat. It is unclear whether President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt will survive, or whether his nationalist regime will be replaced by an Islamist, democratic, or authoritarian state. What is certain is that it will be a failed state. Amid the speculation about the shape of Arab politics to come, a handful of observers, for example economist Nourel Roubini, have pointed to the obvious: Wheat prices have almost doubled in the past year. Egypt is the world's largest wheat importer, beholden to foreign providers for nearly half its total food consumption. Half of Egyptians live on less than $2 a day. Food comprises almost half the country's consumer price index, and ...
Flip Flop: Now Obama wants Yemeni leader out
Post Date: 2011-04-04 12:47:36 by Happy Quanzaa
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If this is Monday, that means another Obama foreign policy 180. We've seen it in Egypt when we first backed Mubarak and then did an about face and said he should go. We saw it in Libya where for weeks the administration was saying there would be no "no fly zone" or any military action against Gaddafi - until there was. Now we've turned our backs on Yemen's president Saleh after weeks of standing behind him. New York Times: The United States, which long supported Yemen's president, even in the face of recent widespread protests, has now quietly shifted positions and has concluded that he is unlikely to bring about the required reforms and must be eased out of ...
Muslim Bro'hood advocates Egyptian modesty police~Islamic attacks on Muslim mystic tombs, Christians
Post Date: 2011-04-04 11:12:15 by Happy Quanzaa
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Call adds to concerns among liberals that the country is going Islamic after attacks on Muslim mystic tombs, Christians. Officials of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's leading Islamic group, have called for the establishment of a Saudi-style modesty police to combat "immoral" behavior in public areas in what observers say in another sign of a growing Islamic self-confidence in the post-Mubarak era. In the political sphere, the Brotherhood led a successful drive to get voters to approve a package of constitutional amendments. On the street level, at least 20 attacks were perpetrated against the tombs of Muslim mystics (suffis), who are the subject of popular veneration but ...
Kinetic Mission Creep: NATObama extends US kinetic airstrike role in Libya through Monday
Post Date: 2011-04-03 17:02:17 by Happy Quanzaa
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US extends airstrike role in Libya through Monday WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. agreed to NATO's request for a 48-hour extension of American participation in coalition airstrikes against targets in Libya and U.S. lawmakers cautioned Sunday the allies need to know more about the rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi's forces before providing them with weapons. Two weeks into the assault on Gadhafi, Republican lawmakers expressed concern that a stalemate could leave him in control of portions of Libya and with access to stockpiles of chemical weapons. The U.S. is shifting the combat role to Britain, France and other NATO allies, but American air power is still in demand. Air Force AC-130 ...
Peacekeepers control Abidjan airport, French military says
Post Date: 2011-04-03 12:06:33 by A K A Stone
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AFP - Peacekeepers have taken control of the airport in Abidjan as forces loyal to the country's rival presidents struggle for control of Ivory Coast's main city, the French military said Sunday. France has also boosted its Licorne (Unicorn) peacekeeping mission in the cocoa-rich nation by 300 to around 1,400 troops, where part of their mission is to protect foreigners from attacks and looting amid rising insecurity. "This war is about what it means to be Ivorian" "Licorne, in coordination with UNOCI (United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire), has taken control of Felix Houphouet-Boigny airport," chief of staff spokesman Colonel Thierry Burkhard told AFP. ...
UN Envoy: UN Workers Killed Running From Bunker
Post Date: 2011-04-03 05:40:36 by sneakypete
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Fearing for their lives, the U.N. workers dashed into a dark bunker hoping to escape the mob of Afghan protesters angry over the burning of a Quran by a Florida church. Hope wasn't enough for three of them. They were hunted down and brutally slain - their bodies found later in three different parts of the compound in northern Afghanistan. Eric Kanalstein, UNAMA / AP In this photo taken Saturday in Kabul, Afghanistan, UN personnel carry the casket of one of seven colleagues killed in an attack on the UN operations center in Mazar-i-Sharif on Friday. "They were killed when they were running out of the bunker," said Staffan de Mistura, the top U.N. envoy ...
KloaughPossie (title edited from original) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-04-03 01:49:34 by buckeroo
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Clown Posse.
It's the same folks and mentality that drives them.
They can't articulate and debate a political philosophy , so they hate.
As Goldi pushes them to LF, poor Stone worries about alienating them and losing them to his arch enemy, Robyn.
What Stone fails to see, is that once they have arrived at the bottom site, WTP, they quickly lose interest and tire of copying and pasting our words back and forth to each other.
Within in 2 weeks they always slow in posting on WTP.
Anyone that still posts at LF is welcome to share my thoughts with Stone
WhiteSands posted on 2011-04-03 1:11:25 ET
I can't watch this LP implosion anymore. I am busting a gut in total belly ...
Oops: NATObama Kinetic Forces Accidentally Kinetically Kill 15 Libyan Rebels, Injure 7
Post Date: 2011-04-02 16:33:41 by Happy Quanzaa
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NATO Forces Accidentally Kill 15 Libyan Rebels, Injure 7A Plane Enforcing the International No-Fly Zone Hit Rebel Vehicles, Including an Ambulance NATO forces accidentally killed at least 15 Libya rebels and injured seven when a convoy of five cars belonging to rebel forces was hit today west of Ajdabiyah. A plane enforcing the international no-fly zone hit the rebel vehicles, including an ambulance, between Brega and Ajdabiyah when an anti-aircraft gun was fired into the air, the BBC reported. The accidental hit was a result of NATO forces, who are aiding Libyan civilians, confusing forces loyal to strongman Moammar Ghadafi and rebel groups. Forces on both sides are using civilian ...
Libya: Obama's Kinetic Cut & Run-Stalemate Likely Outcome
Post Date: 2011-04-02 13:53:13 by Happy Quanzaa
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Apr 2, 12:44 PM EDT Libya mission: US eases off, Gadhafi holds on By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two weeks after a dark-of-night barrage of mostly U.S. missiles and bombs opened the international air assault on Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, the American combat role is ending, the rag-tag rebels are reeling and the Pentagon is betting its European allies can finish the job. Gadhafi is still standing, with a few uncertain signs that his inner circle could crack. The Obama administration is hoping that if Gadhafi's government doesn't implode soon, a relentless campaign of airstrikes on his tanks, air defenses and most trusted army units will at ...
Farrakhan: Demons altered Obama, defends Libya's Gadhafi as 'brother'
Post Date: 2011-04-01 09:00:17 by Happy Quanzaa
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Warning that destruction could be on America's doorstep because it oppresses “God's chosen people,” Minister Louis Farrakhan, the controversial Nation of Islam leader, defended Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi today, calling the U.S. action in Libya hypocrisy. Speaking from the pulpit of Chicago's Mosque Maryam, the Nation of Islam's international headquarters, purchased 40 years ago with a $3 million loan from Gadhafi, Farrakhan blamed demons for altering President Barack Obama's moral conscience and driving the assault on Gadhafi, who he calls a brother. “It is a terrible thing for me to hear my brother called all these ugly and filthy names when I ...
SRS concrete pump heading to Japan nuclear site (world’s largest concrete pump)
Post Date: 2011-03-31 22:25:15 by Hondo68
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The world’s largest concrete pump, deployed at the construction site of the U.S. government’s $4.86 billion mixed oxide fuel plant at Savannah River Site, is being moved to Japan in a series of emergency measures to help stabilize the Fukushima reactors.SpecialThe large boom is shown in a file photo from Ashmore Concrete Back | Next Corey Perrine/StaffJerry Ashmore Jr. walks past a 52-meter crane at Ashmore Concrete in Augusta, Ga. Back | Next Corey Perrine/StaffJerry Ashmore Jr. shows off the controls used to operate a 52-meter crane. Back | Next Corey Perrine/StaffJerry Ashmore Jr. shows off the hopper used to keep concrete agitated when poured in a 52-meter crane ...
Kinetic Libyan Rebel Commander Is From Fairfax, VA~ Gen. Khalifa Haftr Wears Pinstripe Suit Instead of Camouflage
Post Date: 2011-03-31 13:59:47 by Happy Quanzaa
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Gen. Khalifa Haftr, the self-proclaimed commander of the Free Libyan Army, does not dress for battle. On a recent day after his forces had reclaimed much of the territory they had lost, the commander was wearing a pinstripe suit and a black turtleneck sweater. Haftr, who lived in Fairfax, Va., until recent weeks when he returned to join the rebellion against Moammar Gadhafi, was appointed to lead the rebel army earlier this month. His top aides appear to be his sons. It is difficult for the media as well as the Obama administration to determine who, if anyone, is in charge of the rebellion. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said recently, "We don't know as much as we would ...
Obama approves Double Secret Kinetic CIA operation in Libya
Post Date: 2011-03-31 12:50:38 by Happy Quanzaa
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Libya rebels glad and wary of U.S. support, defection NEAR BREGA/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Rebels massed for a counter-attack against Muammar Gaddafi's forces in eastern Libya on Thursday, both encouraged by and wary of news of covert U.S. support and his foreign minister's defection. "We are beginning to see the Gaddafi regime crumble," rebel spokesman Mustafa Gheriani said in the eastern town of Benghazi, while stopping short of welcoming fugitive foreign minister Moussa Koussa, a former spy chief, into the rebel fold. Analysts agreed the defection of Koussa, who flew to London on Wednesday, was a blow to Gaddafi whose forces have gained ground in recent days. It ...
Oil climbs to highest since 2008 on Obomber's Kinetic Libya Konflict
Post Date: 2011-03-31 12:00:52 by Happy Quanzaa
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Oil climbs to highest since 2008 on Libya conflict NEW YORK (AP) -- The price of oil rose past $106 a barrel on Thursday as fighters loyal to Moammar Gadhafi pushed back rebels from key areas in eastern Libya. Benchmark west Texas Intermediate crude gained $2.04 at $106.31 in morning trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That's the highest it's been since September, 2008. In London, Brent crude rose $1.98 to $116.93. Energy traders are worried that ongoing unrest in North Africa and the Middle East will disrupt global oil supplies from OPEC countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran.
B. Hussein Obomber's kinetic humanitarian air strikes kill at least 40 civilians in Tripoli
Post Date: 2011-03-31 08:48:58 by Happy Quanzaa
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At least 40 civilians dead inTripoli strikes: Vaticanofficial ROME (Reuters) - At least 40 civilians have been killed in air strikes by Western forces on Tripoli, the top Vatican official in the Libyan capital told a Catholic news agency on Thursday, quoting witnesses. "The so-called humanitarian raids have killed dozens of civilian victims in some neighborhoods of Tripoli," said Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli. "I have collected several witness accounts from reliable people. In particular, in the Buslim neighborhood, due to the bombardments, a civilian building collapsed, causing the death of 40 people," he told Fides, the news agency of ...
Exclusive: Barack Hussein Obama authorizes secret support for Libya rebels
Post Date: 2011-03-30 17:33:57 by Happy Quanzaa
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(Reuters) - President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing covert U.S. government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, government officials told Reuters on Wednesday. Obama signed the order, known as a presidential "finding", within the last two or three weeks, according to four U.S. government sources familiar with the matter. Such findings are a principal form of presidential directive used to authorize secret operations by the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA and the White House declined immediate comment. News that Obama had given the authorization surfaced as the President and other U.S. and allied officials spoke openly ...
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