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Multiculturalism has failed, says French president
Post Date: 2011-02-11 16:51:55 by Happy Quanzaa
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PARIS (AFP) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared Thursday that multiculturalism had failed, joining a growing number of world leaders or ex-leaders who have condemned it. "My answer is clearly yes, it is a failure," he said in a television interview when asked about the policy which advocates that host societies welcome and foster distinct cultural and religious immigrant groups. "Of course we must all respect differences, but we do not want... a society where communities coexist side by side. "If you come to France, you accept to melt into a single community, which is the national community, and if you do not want to accept that, you cannot be welcome in ...
Iran's Ahmadinejad claims ownership of Mideast 'divine awakening'
Post Date: 2011-02-11 15:00:19 by Happy Quanzaa
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Mubarak out as Iran's Ahmadinejad claims ownership of Mideast 'divine awakening' As Egypt rejoiced over Mubarak's removal, President Ahmadinejad marked the 32nd anniversary of the 1979 Iran revolution with a speech declaring it was the foundation for the popular unrest spreading through Arab nations. Baghdad, Iraq Iranians marked the 32nd anniversary of their Islamic revolution on Friday, with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claiming that Iran was the vanguard of a popular and divine "awakening” now under way “in every corner of this planet.” State television showed split-screen images juxtaposing the annual rally in Tehran with Egyptians massing in ...
'Egypt Army To Sack Cabinet, Parliament'
Post Date: 2011-02-11 13:44:54 by Brian S
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The Egyptian army reportedly intends to sack the cabinet and both houses of Parliament, after the opposition called for the formation of a civilian government in the country. The report followed the transfer of power from Hosni Mubarak to the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces, which is headed by Defense Minister Gen. Mohammed Tantawi. Egypt's main opposition party, the Muslim Brotherhood, called for the establishment of a civilian government and constitution that "guarantees freedom and human rights." The transition of power to the military comes while Mubarak, Vice President Omar Suleiman and Prime Minister Ahmad Shafiq are all former military men. Analysts ...
Ahmadinejad: Egypt Unrest Hails A Mideast Without U.S., Israel
Post Date: 2011-02-11 13:29:08 by Brian S
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In speech marking the 32nd anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iranian President says Egyptians have the right to live in freedom and choose their own government. By The Associated Press Iran's president said Friday that Egypt's popular uprising shows a new Islamic Middle East is emerging, one that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims will have no signs of Israel and U.S. interference. The Iranian leader spoke as the country marked the 32nd anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the pro-U.S. shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and brought hard-line clerics to power. Ahmadinejad's remarks came hours after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced he is transferring ...
Leftist Dupes: From the Communist Brotherhood to the Muslim Brotherhood
Post Date: 2011-02-11 13:26:35 by Happy Quanzaa
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As President Obama encourages an immediate “transition” from Hosni Mubarak to whatever might replace him in Egypt, hope again springs eternal among the American Left. The president has made clear that he supports the presence of the Islamofascist Muslim Brotherhood in the new government, and it appears that no one in the halls of power has sense to persuade him otherwise. Even his director of national intelligence, James Clapper, “clarified” for the Congress on Thursday that the ultra-Islamic Brotherhood is “largely secular” with no “overarching agenda.” The progressive dream, clearly, is that the Muslim Brotherhood will take power and build yet ...
Gaza Celebrates Mubarak Exit; Hamas Demands Change
Post Date: 2011-02-11 12:29:38 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - Palestinians in Gaza let off fireworks and shot into the air to celebrate the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Friday, and the Islamist group Hamas called on Egypt's new rulers to change his policies. "The resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is the beginning of the victory of the Egyptian revolution," said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri. "Such a victory was the result of the sacrifices and the steadfastness of the Egyptian people," he told Reuters. Gaza residents heard gunfire erupt across the city when news of Mubarak's departure spread, and fireworks lit up the sky. The tiny coastal enclave of Gaza shares a border with ...
Live Coverage: Mubarak Resigns, Hands Power To The Military
Post Date: 2011-02-11 11:24:35 by Brian S
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By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAYuslCommentLinks['142590.blog'] = "http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/02/military-vows-free-election-offers-conditional-end-to-emergency-law/1"CommentRecommendUpdate at 11:15 a.m. ET: Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, reacting to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, says: "This is the greatest day of my life. The country has been liberated."Update at 11:08 a.m. ET: Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators erupted in jubilation in Tahrir Square as vice president Omar Suleiman announces that President Mubarak has resigned and called on the army to "run the affairs of the ...
Obama has the solution: Major address-U.S. should strengthen U.N.
Post Date: 2011-02-11 10:50:00 by Happy Quanzaa
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Susan Rice is set to deliver a major address. | AP Photo Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, will argue in a major address Friday evening that the U.S. should “strengthen” — not “starve” — the world body. The address is the first in a series of speeches — to continue this spring – making the case to the American people about why the U.N. matters to national security, and how it is being improved. House Republicans failed this week in trying to get $180 million in overpaid dues back from the United Nations. The effort was widely panned by New Yorkers in Congress as damaging to security. The ambassador will ...
You too can be 'Intelligence' Czar: Panetta Based Congressional Testimony on TV News
Post Date: 2011-02-11 10:30:17 by Happy Quanzaa
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Report: CIA Chief Based Congressional Testimony On Mubarak Departure On Media CIA Director Leon Panetta testified to Congress today of a “strong likelihood” that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would step down by the end of the day. The report of his impending resignation was only eclipsed by the news that Mubarak would NOT be stepping down as Panetta had indicated to congress. The worse part isn’t that Panetta was basing his statement on on media reports (and not intelligence.) No, National Intelligence Director James Clapper outdid Panetta with his erroneous claim that the Muslim Brotherhood is a “secular” organization. Certainly the current upheaval unfolding ...
Dumbass Global Warming Doomsday Alarmists
Post Date: 2011-02-11 09:17:13 by no gnu taxes
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POSSIBLY for the first time in her political career, Greens deputy leader Senator Christine Milne made an accurate prediction. Tropical Cyclone Yasi, she said on Wednesday, was "a tragedy of climate change". She was right for all the wrong reasons. For climate-changers like Milne, Cyclone Yasi was a tragedy precisely because it did not live up to its advance billing and failed to deliver the disaster she and others had predicted. The fear-mongering Greens and the carbon tax hopefuls in the ALP have long been spruiking human responsibility for environmental disasters as the driver of their bizarre climate change policies. According to Greens leader Bob Brown, coal mining was ...
Crisis Puts White House in Disarray
Post Date: 2011-02-11 07:55:00 by Happy Quanzaa
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Egyptian President Mubarak's Refusal to Step Down Signals a Loss of Western Influence; Sense of 'Disbelief' After Speech WASHINGTON—The defiant tone taken by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak—and widespread confusion about the meaning of his speech—had White House officials stumbling for their next step in a crisis that was spinning out of their control. Egyptian officials said Mr. Mubarak gave the Obama administration much of what it wanted: the delegation of presidential powers to the vice president, Omar Suleiman. They said Mr. Mubarak had all but been rendered a figurehead leader, precisely the formulation set out by U.S. officials over the weekend. But Mr. ...
Dazed & Confused: Party Central "Intelligence" said Mubarek was on his way out
Post Date: 2011-02-11 07:22:38 by Happy Quanzaa
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CIA chief says it looks likely that Mubarak is out WASHINGTON – CIA Director Leon Panetta says U.S. intelligence indicates that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is on his way out. Panetta tells Congress that his information indicates Mubarak could be out by Thursday night. He says there is a "high likelihood" of that. Panetta did not say exactly how the CIA reached that conclusion. He says Mubarak's exit would be "significant" in moving Egypt to an "orderly transition" of power. Egypt's military announced on national television that it has stepped in to "safeguard the country" and assured protesters that Mubarak will meet their ...
Obama Sharply Criticizes Egyptian Government's Move, Calls On Leaders To Explain Themselves
Post Date: 2011-02-11 00:27:10 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — Bristling with impatience, President Barack Obama on Thursday openly and sharply questioned whether Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's pledge to shift power to his vice-president is an "immediate, meaningful or sufficient" sign of reform for a country in upheaval. Without naming Mubarak, Obama issued a written statement that criticized the leader for not offering clarity to his people or a concrete path to democracy. He called on Egyptian government leaders to do so, declaring: "They have not yet seized that opportunity." Obama's comments came after Mubarak, in a televised speech, refused to step down despite intense speculation that he was on ...
Every American Should be Proud of Egyptians
Post Date: 2011-02-10 21:40:52 by jwpegler
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The brave Egyptian protesters are in day 16 of their protest against the dictator Mubarak. Mubarak refuses to leave. The Egypt military is starting to make veiled threats against the protesters. Yet, the protests continue. Every American should be proud of the civil disobedience the Egyptians are displaying. After all, Americans pretty much invented civil disobedience. Sorry President Obama, it wasn't Gandhi. Gandhi was a big fan of Henry David Thoreau. Unfortunately, there is a segment in American society that is alarmed by the protests in Egypt. It's a segment of the population that I have a great affinity with and respect for -- conservatives. One has to wonder how ...
Rage In Egypt As Mubarak Stops Short Of Resigning
Post Date: 2011-02-10 17:27:40 by Brian S
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CAIRO (Reuters) – President Hosni Mubarak provoked rage on Egypt's streets on Thursday when he said he would hand powers to his deputy but disappointed protesters who had been expecting him to step down altogether after two weeks of unrest. "Leave! Leave!" chanted thousands who had gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square in anticipation that a televised speech would be the moment their demands for an end to Mubarak's 30 years of authoritarian, one-man rule were met. Instead, the 82-year-old former general portrayed himself as a patriot overseeing an orderly transition until elections in September. He praised the young people who have stunned the Arab world with ...
Mubarak Flees Cairo to Unknown Place
Post Date: 2011-02-10 17:21:41 by Brian S
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(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Presidential sources say Egypt's three-decade ruler Hosni Mubarak has left the country, noting an address he is scheduled to deliver in a few hours is taped. The reports by presidential sources came on Thursday on the heels of remarks by Hossan Badrawi, the general secretary of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party, who said Mubarak will "probably" address the nation in the evening. He told state-funded BBC that he hopes Mubarak will transfer power to Vice President Omar Suleiman. The opposition Muslim Brotherhood earlier said on its official website that Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq confirmed the possibility that the out-of-favor Egyptian ...
Egypt Live Report
Post Date: 2011-02-10 14:42:34 by Brian S
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– 6 mins ago CAIRO (AFP) – 1918GMT: Google exec Wael Ghonim tweets he's going to Tahrir Square amid countdown towards Mubarak's heavily anticipated speech 1915 GMT: Journalist Shahira Amin in Tahrir Square tells the BBC World Service that "people thought Egypt was like a mountain that would never be moved." 1915 GMT: Journalist Shahira Amin in Tahrir Square tells the BBC World Service that "people thought Egypt was like a mountain that would never be moved." 1903 GMT: Protesters unveil a huge white sheet on Tahrir Square apparently to display the footage of Mubarak's speech, as with an hour to go until he addresses the nation the square is ...
Israel Braces for a New Egypt
Post Date: 2011-02-10 14:36:35 by Brian S
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Israelis are bracing for a more adversarial regime in Egypt, one they expect could lead their country to expand its army, fortify the two countries' desert frontier and possibly re-invade the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip. Israeli analysts remain concerned about possible new threats to the country's security amid unrest in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East. Special correspondent Martin Himel reports from Tel Aviv. Three decades after Israel settled into a "cold peace" with Egypt—breaking its encirclement by hostile Arab states but failing to win much popular sympathy from Egyptians—Israeli officials are reviewing the ways the U.S.-backed transition in Cairo ...
Obama Says in Speech U.S. Will Fully Support Orderly Transition in Egypt
Post Date: 2011-02-10 14:07:42 by Brian S
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Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said the U.S. will do everything possible to promote an orderly transition of power in Egypt. “What is absolutely clear is that we are witnessing history unfold,” Obama said in Marquette, Michigan, where he was highlighting his plan to expand high-speed Internet access in the U.S. “It’s a moment of transformation that is taking place because the people of Egypt are calling for change.” The president was briefed on developments in Egypt aboard Air Force One on his way to the event. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak plans to address his nation tonight, Egypt’s state-run Al Masriya television reported. A spokesman ...
Egypt's economy close to meltdown. Military coup near~US naval, marine & air forces in Suez Canal
Post Date: 2011-02-10 12:13:19 by Happy Quanzaa
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Arab country with a population of 82 million is on the verge of breakdown as large sections of is economic machinery are shut down by spreading strikes and workers' revolts against managements appointed by the Mubarak regime and Vice President Omar's Suleiman's leadership. debkafile's sources report there are no trains since railway workers declared a general strike; the main state highways are barricaded by protesters. Egypt's 1,000-kilometer long Cairo-Aswan lifeline along the Nile was shut to traffic all day Wednesday, Feb. 9 with no sign that the army or security forces are willing or able to reopen it to traffic. As protesters continue to pour into Cairo's ...
Wired and Shrewd, Young Egyptians Guide Revolt
Post Date: 2011-02-10 11:42:27 by war
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CAIRO — They were born roughly around the time that President Hosni Mubarak first came to power, most earned degrees from their country’s top universities and all have spent their adult lives bridling at the restrictions of the Egyptian police state — some undergoing repeated arrests and torture for the cause. They are the young professionals, mostly doctors and lawyers, who touched off and then guided the revolt shaking Egypt, members of the Facebook generation who have remained mostly faceless — very deliberately so, given the threat of arrest or abduction by the secret police. Now, however, as the Egyptian government has sought to splinter their movement by claiming ...
NBC: Mubarak to step down tonight, veep to take over
Post Date: 2011-02-10 10:53:43 by lucysmom
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Update at 10:45 a.m. ET: NBC says Mubarak will make a statement this evening and step down. A statement by the armed forces on Egyptian state TV says the military convened the supreme council of the armed forces "to safeguard people and protect their interest." Al-Jazeera TV notes that Mubarak was not shown attending that meeting. In its statement, the military says it the council will remain in session indefinitely during the crisis. It says the decision was made in response to "legitimate" popular demands. Click for Full Text!
Greenpeace Founder Questions Man-Made Global Warming
Post Date: 2011-02-10 10:49:44 by A K A Stone
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Patrick Moore, co-founder of the environmental organization Greenpeace, isn’t too hot about global warming. Appearing on Fox Business Network with Stuart Varney on Thursday, he said global warming is a “natural phenomenon,” there’s no proof of man-made global warming, and suggested that “alarmism” is driving politicians to create bad environmental policies. He also said he’s not the only environmentalist that believes like him: Moore is the author of the book, “Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist,” in which he exposes the green movement and explains why he left the organization. While talking with ...
Hey Look The Globullshit Warming Retards Said Snow Will Be A Thing of the Past
Post Date: 2011-02-10 10:25:55 by A K A Stone
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Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past
By Charles Onians
Monday, 20 March 2000
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Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.
Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain's culture, as warmer winters - which scientists are attributing to global climate change - produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries. Related articles
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Saudi King Abdullah orders Hussein Obama to back Mubarek
Post Date: 2011-02-10 06:46:37 by Happy Quanzaa
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Saudi Arabia has threatened to prop up President Mubarak if the White House tries to force a swift change of regime in Egypt. In a testy personal telephone call on January 29, King Abdullah told President Obama not to humiliate Mr Mubarak and warned that he would step in to bankroll Egypt if the US withdrew its aid programme, worth $1.5 billion annually. America’s closest ally in the Gulf made clear that the Egyptian President must be allowed to stay on to oversee the transition towards peaceful democracy and then leave with dignity. “Mubarak and King Abdullah are not just allies, they are close friends, and the King is not about to see his friend cast aside and humiliated,” ...
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