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Army Rewrites History of Battle
Post Date: 2010-12-30 12:46:53 by Brian S
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Army Rewrites History of Battle The Army has released its official history of the battle of Wanat—a fight in Afghanistan in July 2008 that killed nine U.S. soldiers—and it is conspicuously different than an earlier draft from last year. The new history pins the blame for the losses on low-level commanders, whereas the earlier draft had blamed higher-level battalion and brigade commanders, saying they failed to adequately supply their troops. Gen. David Petraeus, who was in charge at the time, recommended that the company, battalion, and brigade commanders be given reprimands that would essentially end their careers. However, the officers successfully appealed their reprimands. ...
WINTER MAY BE COLDEST IN 1000 YEARS [So much for Global "Warming"]
Post Date: 2010-12-30 12:08:21 by Capitalist Eric
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BRITAIN’S winter is the coldest since 1683 and close to being the chilliest in nearly 1,000 years. Latest figures reveal that the average temperature since December 1 has been a perishing -1C. That makes it the second coldest since records began in 1659. The chilliest on record was 1683/84, when the average was -1.17C and the River Thames froze over for two months. But with January and February to come, experts believe we could suffer the most freezing cold winter in the last 1,000 years. The Met Office’s Charlie Powell said: “It’s rare to have cold this prolonged, with temperatures falling incredibly low. “Temperatures will be down again by ...
Paris to ban SUVs: report [Even Hummers]
Post Date: 2010-12-30 10:00:54 by Ferret Mike
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If you’re an SUV owner and you’re living in France, it’s likely you soon won’t be able to enter into the city of Paris. The mayor’s office hinted this week that different types of vehicles may be banned from the city, including old diesel vehicles, and SUVs. Denis Baupin, a Parisian environmental official, told RTL radio anyone who had an SUV should “sell it and buy a vehicle that’s compatible with city life. I’m sorry, but having a sport utility vehicle in a city makes no sense.” Test restrictions are set to begin late next year, giving SUV-loving Parisians a short amount of time to get out of what Baupin calls “gas-guzzlers”. ...
ADL Slams Conspiracy Theories Linking Israel To WikiLeaks
Post Date: 2010-12-29 18:26:03 by Brian S
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The the release of classified US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks is "being exploited to spread false and malicious conspiracy theories against Israel," the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said in a statement released Wednesday. The ADL said claims that the Israel and the "Israel lobby" in the US played a secret role in the release of the cables was "part of a disinformation campaign that has as gained traction with those catering to the far right and the left, some Arab and Islamic Web sites and others dedicated to spreading 'anti-Zionist' messages like Islam Times and Hezbollah’s Al Manar. “Once again, as we saw with the 9/11 attacks and the ...
WikiLeaks Founder Denies Pact With Israel
Post Date: 2010-12-29 17:00:13 by Brian S
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said his whistleblowing website plans to publish hundreds of “sensitive” US diplomatic cables on Israel, Al Jazeera television reported on Thursday. “Sensitive and classified documents” on Israel’s 2006 war on Lebanon and January’s assassination in Dubai of Hamas activist Mahmud Al Mabhouh would be released, Assange told Al Jazeera in an interview. Assange said WikiLeaks had 3,700 US documents on Israel, including 2,700 originating from the Jewish state, but denied the website had any agreement in place to spare the country of leaks. “We do not have any secret deals with any country,” he said according to an ...
Global Cooling Consensus Is Heating Up – Cooling Over The Next 1 To 3 Decades
Post Date: 2010-12-29 15:36:09 by no gnu taxes
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As winters get harsher and the snow piles up, more and more scientists are now warning of global cooling. Reader Matt Vooro has compiled a list (see below) of 31 prominent scientists and researchers who have words that governments ought to start heeding. Cooling seems to be the trend. Photo source: NOAA. Lately, the clueless among warmist scientists, governments and the MSM have been running around in deep snow with their global warming blinders on, denying the cold around them. Governments, entrusted to serve the citizens, really ought to start listening up and planning accordingly. ...
Chief Rabbis Call Israel to Fight 'Abortion Epidemic'
Post Date: 2010-12-29 11:31:23 by Brian S
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JERUSALEM, Israel - Israel's Chief Rabbis Yona Metzger and Shlomo Amar called on the Israeli public on Monday to fight the "abortion epidemic" in the country. In a letter sent to all rabbis countrywide, the chief rabbis cited this week's Torah portion from Exodus that tells of the Hebrew midwives who refused Pharaoh's edict to kill all newborn males by casting them into the Nile. Rabbis Metzger and Amar asked the nation's spiritual leaders to teach on the "biblical prohibition to kill fetuses in their mothers' wombs." Three years ago, the Chief Rabbinate formed a committee to fight the estimated 50,000 abortions taking place in Israel each year. ...
North Korean Regime, Military Declared `Enemy' in South Korean Statement
Post Date: 2010-12-28 20:19:54 by Brian S
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Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) -- South Korea declared North Korea’s regime and military its enemy after the communist country’s deadly shelling of a border island last month that killed four people, including two civilians. South Korea stopped short of calling North Korea its “main enemy” in a defense white paper to be published tomorrow, the defense ministry said in a statement on its website. The term main enemy was dropped in 2004 under South Korea’s “Sunshine Policy” of engagement with North Korea. President Lee Myung Bak has taken a tougher approach to North Korea since coming to power in 2008 and in the wake of the deadly Nov. 23 shelling of Yeonpyeong ...
China Has Carrier-Killer Missile, U.S. Admiral Says
Post Date: 2010-12-28 20:12:54 by Brian S
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China's military is deploying a new anti-ship ballistic missile that can sink U.S. aircraft carriers, a weapon that specialists say gives Beijing new power-projection capabilities that will affect U.S. support for its Pacific allies. Adm. Robert F. Willard, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, disclosed to a Japanese newspaper on Sunday that the new anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) is now in the early stages of deployment after having undergone extensive testing. "An analogy using a Western term would be 'initial operational capability (IOC),' whereby I think China would perceive that it has an operational capability now, but they continue to develop it," Adm. ...
US Declined To Help UAE Probe Suspected Mossad Assassination, Then Lied About Request, Leaked Cable Reveals
Post Date: 2010-12-28 19:55:45 by Brian S
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The US government lied about a request from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government to probe the death of a Hamas military leader, according to a recently released US State Department cable from secrets outlet WikiLeaks. Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was assassinated in a Dubai hotel in January 2010. Dubai officials have long suspected Israel intelligence agency Mossad was behind the killing and Israel has never denied responsibility. A cable released on Friday showed that the UAE government made a formal request for the US to provide credit card information about the suspects in the killing. "On the margins of a meeting with visiting Secretary Chu, on Feb 24 MFA Minister of State ...
Jihaddi drag queen goes postal
Post Date: 2010-12-27 10:12:10 by Happy Quanzaa
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Saudi says Qaeda militant dressed as woman killed The suspect in woman's clothes killed at a police checkpoint last week was an Al-Qaeda militant, the Saudi interior ministry said on Monday. The man "disguised in women's clothes" killed after opening fire on security forces was "a Saudi wanted for belonging to the deviant group (Al-Qaeda) and his involvement in criminal activities," it said. The ministry, in a statement carried by state news agency SPA, named the man as Mohammed Issam Taher Baghdadi. Two men, one wearing a woman's black abaya robe with the face veiled, were stopped last Friday at a checkpoint in Wadi al-Dawasir, 600 kilometres (360 miles) ...
Job Opening: James Bond in drag needed
Post Date: 2010-12-26 12:59:59 by Happy Quanzaa
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The secret double identity of murdered spy: Friend insists Gareth Williams was not gay - and was being trained by MI6 for undercover role The spy found dead in a sports bag had been given a new identity by his MI6 bosses in the months leading up to his mysterious death. Gareth Williams, a GCHQ codebreaker on secondment to MI6, had two passports and told his best friend that he was preparing for an undercover operation. Details of the 31-year-old’s role within the secret services are disclosed today in an interview with his confidante and childhood sweetheart, Sian Lloyd-Jones. In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, she said: ‘I find it difficult to see anything in his ...
A Fair Exchange?
Post Date: 2010-12-26 12:56:20 by Skip MacLure
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The new Mossad director, Tamir Pardo, will get his first taste of conflict next month. Not from Iran or any of the Arab countries, not even from the UN. It will come from Britain, most likely in the form of Foreign Secretary William Hague, who, you may remember, quickly condemned Israel over the Mavi Marvara incident before the facts were even known. London’s ‘Telegraph’ newspaper, which is usually one of the more trustworthy dailies, has reported that Pardo will apologize for the use of British passports in the Mahmoud al-Mabhouh affair, the Hamas official killed in Dubai a year ago. It goes on to say that Pardo will explain that he personally condemned the use of foreign ...
Hey Obama, All You Need Is...Reggie Love!
Post Date: 2010-12-25 13:31:59 by Happy Quanzaa
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Carnarvon on flood alert after deluge (Western Australia)
Post Date: 2010-12-23 22:05:29 by go65
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arnarvon residents have been warned to prepare for flooding that may endanger lives and homes. The Fire & Emergency Services Authority said flooding was likely tonight and tomorrow after heavy rainfall in the Gascoyne River catchment over the past 24 hours. More than a year’s rain fell in Carnarvon in just 24 hours this week. A monsoonal low hovering over the Gascoyne dumped a 24-hour record 204.8mm, smashing the previous record of 119.4mm set on March 24, 1923. Carnarvon also looks set to break its monthly rainfall record of 212.2mm set in June 1895. The town's average monthly rainfall for December is 1.8mm. Bureau of Meteorology duty forecaster Richard Rattley said the ...
Vice Admiral: Obama was outmaneuvered by Russians on START
Post Date: 2010-12-23 17:26:01 by WhiteSands
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President Barack Obama was outmaneuvered by the Russians and should have abandoned the New START negotiations instead of seeking a political victory, says former nuclear plans monitor Vice Admiral Jerry Miller, USN (Ret). “The Obama administration is continuing a dated policy in which we cannot even unilaterally reduce our own inventory of weapons and delivery systems without being on parity with the Russians,” Miller told the U.S. Naval Institute in Annapolis, Md. “We could give up plenty of deployed delivery systems and not adversely affect our national security one bit, but New START prohibits such action - so we are now stuck with some outmoded and useless elements in ...
Defeat of DREAM Act only a temporary setback, says Archbishop Gomez
Post Date: 2010-12-23 17:15:44 by WhiteSands
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Washington D.C., Dec 22, 2010 / 07:50 pm (CNA).- Although the controversial immigration DREAM Act failed to pass through the Senate last week, the support that the bill garnered in the House was enough to make Archbishop Jose Gomez, chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration, “confident” that the legislation will succeed in the near future. Despite the U.S. bishops endorsing the the DREAM Act – a bill that would grant citizenship to many children brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents – the measure was defeated in the U.S. Senate on Dec. 18 after supporters failed to muster enough votes to block a filibuster. Sixty votes were needed to end the ...
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: Ready To Play Hardball ("We need to help Israel...")
Post Date: 2010-12-23 16:35:31 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON – Ileana Ros-Lehtinen wasn’t pleased. She had just moved into her roomy new offices as the incoming House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman only to find a row of her photos blocked by a poorly placed bookcase. While the requisite glory wall of pictures of the congresswoman alongside luminaries ranging from the Dalai Lama to Binyamin Netanyahu was in full view, as were her family snapshots and images with distinguished American military officers, largely concealed was the lineup of a Styrofoam boat, a floating truck and other peculiar water-based vessels. Ros-Lehtinen has collected these images from US Coast Guard photographers under strict instructions to send the ...
Massive EU Aid to PA; US Omits Aid to Israel
Post Date: 2010-12-23 16:30:06 by Brian S
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First installment of massive European Union aid to the PA for 2011 is announced, while US delays previously-pledged hundreds of millions of dollars for Israeli defense. European Union foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton announced on Wednesday an initial 100-million-euro ($131.3 million) aid package to the Palestinian Authority for 2011. Sixty million euros will enable the Palestinian Authority "to cover wages and pensions for essential civilian workers, particularly medical and teaching staff," Ashton said, and the remainder will be channeled through United Nations relief programs. "This decision is a sign of the strong political and financial commitment of the ...
'WikiLeaks To Publish Israel Cables On Second Lebanon War, Dubai Assassination'
Post Date: 2010-12-23 15:57:30 by Brian S
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Wednesday that his website is due to release thousands of documents related to Israel, particularly dealing with the Mabhouh assassination in Dubai and the Second Lebanon War, Channel 10 reported Thursday. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Assange said that only very few files related to Israel were published so far and that WikiLeaks intends on releasing many more documents over the next six months. Assange, who was recently released from a British prison, said that he holds 3,700 more files related to Israel, and the main source of them is the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv. Assange said in the interview that WikiLeaks plans on releasing cables that were ...
War rhetoric rises between North and South Korea
Post Date: 2010-12-23 15:44:51 by WhiteSands
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SEOUL, South Korea – One month after a deadly exchange of artillery fire, the two Koreas ramped up their rhetoric Thursday, with South Korea's president pledging unsparing retaliation if attacked again and a top North Korean official threatening a "sacred" nuclear war if provoked. South Korean troops, tanks and fighter jets put on a thundering display of force as President Lee Myung-bak visited with soldiers at a base near the border, while North Korea's elite marked a key military anniversary by lashing out at the South for encouraging war. For both countries, the rallying cries and military maneuvers mainly seemed designed to build support at home. But they raised ...
Richardson: Korean Tension 'the Worst I Have Ever Seen'
Post Date: 2010-12-23 09:33:00 by Badeye
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Richardson: Korean Tension 'the Worst I Have Ever Seen' Published December 23, 2010 | Associated Press Print Email Share Comments (27) Text Size AP Dec. 16, 2010: In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, U.S. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson arrives in Pyongyang, North Korea. SANTA FE, New Mexico -- Fresh off a peacekeeping trip to the Korean peninsula, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson warned violence between North and South Korea could flare anew if the South continues its military drills and the North abandons its intentions to refrain from retaliation. A former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Richardson spent the past few days serving as an unofficial ...
WikiLeaks confirms that Arab countries want us to attack Iran
Post Date: 2010-12-22 21:22:53 by WhiteSands
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In January 2008 we wrote EU and Iran: No Chance for Sanctions to Work. Eight months later we made the case for The Coming War with Iran in view of Teheran’s ideologically-driven intransigence over its nuclear program. In the latter, we not only asserted that military action was almost inevitable if Teheran refuses — as it obviously has — to play diplomatic ball, but that an Israeli-US strike would not only not lead to an ensuing “conflagration across the Middle East” as “experts” repeatedly tout, but it would be actively welcomed by Iran’s regional neighbors. In what is undoubtedly the greatest single revelation of the current WikiLeaks release of US ...
Christmas bomb plotters were radicalised in jail
Post Date: 2010-12-22 21:03:22 by WhiteSands
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A neighbour of three men arrested in Cardiff said that, after they were convicted of theft and drugs offences, they "went to prison as petty criminals and came out expressing extreme views". Twelve men, mainly British nationals of Bangladeshi origin, were still being questioned by anti-terrorism officers last night following co-ordinated raids in the Welsh capital, London, Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham on Monday. Sources said the gang was planning a "spectacular" attack on banks, shops and "iconic" sites in London. Lord Carlile, the Government's counter-terrorism watchdog, told MPs yesterday that there were allegations of a "significant" ...
Vatican tried to keep Irish child rapist as priest
Post Date: 2010-12-22 19:23:19 by WhiteSands
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DUBLIN (AP) — The Vatican tried to stop Dublin church leaders from defrocking a particularly dangerous pedophile priest and relented only after he raped a boy in a pub restroom, an investigation reported Friday. Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said he fully accepted the findings of the latest chapter in Ireland's investigation into child abuse by Catholic Church figures. Martin called Tony Walsh an "extremely devious man" who should never have been ordained a priest, and said the report highlighted how the church had grown too powerful and arrogant in 20th century Ireland. A state-ordered investigation into Dublin Archdiocese cover-ups reported last year that ...
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