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Putin: Arrest Of Wikileaks Leader Indicates Lack Of Democracy
Post Date: 2010-12-15 13:56:16 by Brian S
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The arrest of enigmatic Wikileaks founder Julian Assange indicates a problem with democracy, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. "If they have full democracy, why have they hidden Mister Assange away in prison? Is that what democracy is?" the premier said at a briefing with his French counterpart Francois Fillon. "In Russian villages they say 'some people's cows can moo, but yours should keep quiet.' So I would like to shoot the puck back at our American colleagues," Putin added. Assange was arrested in London on December 7. His extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted on sex assault charges, is pending. World leaders and diplomats ...
Is Free Iraq Becoming A More Islamic State?
Post Date: 2010-12-15 13:45:17 by Brian S
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BAGHDAD | Wed Dec 15, 2010 8:54pm IST BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A group of men recently ordered Siham al-Zubaidi to close down her Baghdad hair salon for two months for Shi'ite religious festivities. She had no idea who they were but complied because she feared for her life. "Can you just tell me who will pay the rent of my shop for these two months? What shall I do to support my family? What is the relation between hair dressing and religious events?" Zubaidi, 40, asked furiously. "This is a new dictatorship. They want Iraq to be an Islamic state. But this is not right. Iraq includes a variety of religious factions ... These are alien ideas, not Iraqi." Recent efforts ...
GOP Threatens To Delay US-Russia Arms Treaty
Post Date: 2010-12-15 11:54:14 by Brian S
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Republicans threatened Wednesday to delay efforts to ratify the U.S.-Russia nuclear treaty, President Barack Obama's top foreign policy priority, by forcing the pact to be read aloud in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the Senate on Wednesday will begin to debate the treaty to lower the cap on nuclear warheads for both countries and establish a system for verification. Bemoaning the political gamesmanship over a national security issue, Reid said he hoped Republicans would not require that the treaty be read. "What a colossal waste of time," he said on the Senate floor. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said that the only imperatives ...
Faggot Fans Warned Not to Fudgepack @ Qatar World Cup
Post Date: 2010-12-15 03:06:12 by Happy Quanzaa
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Fifa boss tells gay fans: 'Don't have sex at Qatar World Cup' Calls for Sepp Blatter to resign after he advises gays to abstain from sex in 2022 in Qatar where homosexuality is illegal Fifa president Sepp Blatter Sepp Blatter, the president of Fifa. He jokingly said gay football fans should abstain from sex during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Photograph: Bryn Lennon/Getty Images Fifa president Sepp Blatter today provoked calls for his resignation after joking that gay football fans should "refrain" from sex during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal. Asked about concerns over the treatment of gay fans at the 2022 tournament, Blatter appeared ...
Israel Seeks 20 Additional F-35s After Failure of U.S. Swap for Peace Plan
Post Date: 2010-12-14 19:16:40 by Brian S
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Israel still wants 20 additional F-35 fighter jets even after the failure of a U.S. offer to provide the planes in exchange for a freeze on Israeli settlement construction, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, said today. The 20 jets would be in addition to 20 Lockheed Martin Corp.-built F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, valued at about $2.8 billion, that Israel ordered in October, Oren told Bloomberg News reporters and editors in Washington. “It was clear from the beginning that the 20 we were purchasing would not be enough and we’d require more,” Oren said. The F-35 planes are the “ballast in helping Israel maintain its qualitative military edge” over ...
Israel General Drops Defense Bombshell
Post Date: 2010-12-14 19:15:17 by Brian S
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Maj. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, commander of Israel's northern front, has dropped a bombshell by disclosing that the anti-missile systems the defense industry has developed are intended to protect the country's military installations, not its cities and civilian population. "The residents of Israel shouldn't be under the illusion that someone will open an umbrella over the heads" in the event of a massive missile and rocket attack by Israel's enemies, he declared in a speech Sunday at the University of Haifa. "The systems are designed to protect military bases, even if this means that citizens suffer discomfort during the days of ...
IRS Describes Scrutiny Of Pro-Israel Nonprofit
Post Date: 2010-12-14 18:56:47 by Brian S
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The Internal Revenue Services is denying claims from a hawkish pro-Israel group, which filed suit recently in Pennsylvania suggesting that the IRS was persecuting it and other groups for their differences with the administration. IRS agents have responded in sworn affidavits, posted by the plaintiff Z Street, that the group faces special scrutiny because it could be sending money to a country with a heightened risk of terrorism, in this case Israel. The affidavits say the group's application was sent to the "Touch and Go" IRS division, referred to formally as Exempt Organizations Determinations Group 7830 and informally as TAG. "A referral to TAG is appropriate ...
Activity at N.Korean Nuclear Sites Sparks Frenzied Speculation
Post Date: 2010-12-14 18:47:59 by Brian S
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North Korea has dug a new tunnel more than 500 m deep at a nuclear test site in Punggye-ri, North Hamgyong Province, intelligence sources said Tuesday. The North is also reportedly accelerating massive excavation work and construction of a new building at its main nuclear site in Yongbyon. "North Korea seems to be busy digging even in winter when the ground is frozen" at Punggye-ri and Yongbyon, an intelligence officer said. Based on an estimate of the amount of earth dug up, the intelligence officer speculated that the North has already dug a cave more than 500 m deep in Punggye-ri. "If progress goes on at the current pace, the North will have dug a cave 1 km deep, the ...
Austrian MP Ewald Stadler adresses Turkish Ambassador
Post Date: 2010-12-14 17:13:37 by sneakypete
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Poster Comment:I sense a disturbance in the Germanic force. Damn shame WE don't have any politicians with the brass to stand up to the Islamists and their treasonous fellow travelers like this Austrian politician did.
Wikileaks' Assange Granted Bail by U.K. Judge Overseeing Extradition Fight
Post Date: 2010-12-14 11:53:13 by Brian S
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Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblower website, was granted bail by the U.K. judge overseeing his extradition fight with Sweden over allegations of rape and molestation. Assange, 39, will be released after posting bail of 240,000 pounds ($378,480), Judge Howard Riddle said at a hearing today. Assange’s lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson, said Assange would stay with a friend in Suffolk, north east of London, to address Riddle’s concerns at a hearing last week that his client was a flight risk. “Last week, he didn’t have a verified address; this week he does,” Riddle said. “It has been dealt with comprehensively and entirely ...
Mullen: Risk of War Rising on Korean Peninsula
Post Date: 2010-12-13 15:41:41 by Badeye
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Mullen: Risk of War Rising on Korean Peninsula Published December 13, 2010 | FoxNews.com The top U.S. military officer said Monday that the danger of war or hostilities on the Korean peninsula is rising, as North Korea warned that cooperation between its southern neighbor and the United States could trigger a nuclear war. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told troops in Baghdad that North Korea has upped the ante in its aggression against South Korea -- a pattern he said is tied to preparations for Kim Jong Il to pass power to his son. The latest example of bellicose rhetoric came with North Korea warning of nuclear war, as South Korea planned live-fire naval ...
Iran Conducts Large Military Exercise Near Iraq Border
Post Date: 2010-12-13 15:11:18 by Brian S
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TEHERAN — Iran's army has finished a large military exercise by ground forces near the Iraqi border, the official Iranian state news agency IRNA reported Monday. But unlike previous war games in which Iran boasted of weapons advances, the latest maneuvers were largely held under wraps. The report by the IRNA news agency was the first public word that the maneuvers had been held, and even IRNA's confirmation came only indirectly. The report was about the death of two military officers in a road accident as they came back from "large" exercises by ground forces. IRNA gave no further details about the maneuvers. Iran has been holding regular exercises by the ...
Israel May Have No Military Option Against Iran
Post Date: 2010-12-13 13:42:50 by Brian S
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Every cloud has a silver lining: Maybe lessons will be learned from the fire. Not only fire extinguishers, fire trucks and new planes, but also new thinking, and fire retardants that douse the really big fire. The home front's weakness should teach us that Israel apparently has no military option. This is a much more fateful lesson than all the fire's other lessons, and it should be dealt with. The apocalyptic descriptions of a missile attack on the home front if Israel attacks Iran or Lebanon appear even more apocalyptic in light of Israel's conduct when handling a medium-sized forest fire. Discussions on our future, therefore, should move to the arena that Israelis favor: the ...
Russia's Soyuz Soon To Be Only Lifeline To Space
Post Date: 2010-12-13 12:34:17 by Brian S
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) -- As a Soyuz spacecraft slowly rolls to its launchpad on the icy cold steppes of Kazakhstan, even the most seasoned space fan cannot help but be spellbound by the sight. With NASA finally retiring the shuttle program next year, the venerable Russian workhorse is now set to become the world's only lifeline to the International Space Station. That predicament is provoking mixed feelings of concern over excess reliance on Russia's space program and enduring admiration for the hardiness of the Soviet-designed Soyuz. "The vehicle is a rugged 'one trick pony,' no frills or luxuries, and can take any licking and keep on ticking," said James ...
Swedes Shocked By 1st Terror Attack In 3 Decades
Post Date: 2010-12-12 23:14:32 by Brian S
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STOCKHOLM (AP) -- No one died except for the suspected bomber, but two explosions in Sweden's capital tore at the fabric of this tolerant and open nation - a society that hadn't seen a terrorist attack in more than three decades. Two people were wounded in central Stockholm on Saturday in what appeared to be the first suicide bombing in the history of Sweden, which has been spared the major terrorist strikes seen in several other European countries. A car exploded in the middle of the seasonal shopping frenzy, shooting flames and causing several smaller blasts as people ran screaming from the scene. The blast that killed the alleged bomber came moments later a few blocks away ...
Britain’s Present Will Be Our Future Unless We Wise Up Now!
Post Date: 2010-12-12 18:19:31 by Skip MacLure
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Watching the total anarchy playing out in London’s streets… An out-of-control, mindless mob of social welfare government-created clones, clamoring for more and more from a government which has no more to give. Which has had no more to give for a long time. We are witnessing the collapse of the classic nanny state. Told that the government was going to have to raise school tuition fees, these ‘students’, as the ever cowardly lame stream press is calling them, are the direct result of government welfare cradle-to-grave entitlements. It seems the police have been so neutered they cannot even protect the royal family any longer. A couple of those cretins came very close ...
Hundreds Protest Against Russian Govt--Ethnic Tensions Reaching Boiling Point
Post Date: 2010-12-12 17:54:26 by Murron
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Hundreds Protest Against Russian Govt--Ethnic Tensions Reaching Boiling Point Hundreds of people protested against the Russian government Sunday at two separate rallies in Moscow, with opposition activists calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and nationalists demanding greater rights for ethnic Russians. Several opposition activists were detained. A third rally with nationalist overtones drew more than 1,000 students in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, raising fears that long-standing ethnic tensions were reaching a boiling point. The rallies followed violent clashes Saturday just outside the Kremlin walls between riot police and about 5,000 football fans and ...
Kissinger: Gassing Jews Would Not Be A US Problem
Post Date: 2010-12-12 13:26:07 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON – Henry Kissinger is heard saying the genocide of Soviet Jews would not be an American problem on newly released tapes chronicling President Nixon’s obsession with disparaging Jews and other minorities. Kissinger’s remarks come after a meeting between the two men and former prime minister Golda Meir on March 1, 1973, in which Meir pleads for US pressure on the Soviet Union to release its Jews. The men dismiss her plea after Meir leaves. “The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy,” The New York Times on Saturday quoted Kissinger, then secretary of state, as saying on the tapes. “And if they put Jews ...
SPECIAL REPORT: More Than 1K Internat'l. Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims - Challenge UN IPCC & Gore
Post Date: 2010-12-12 11:24:19 by Happy Quanzaa
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SPECIAL REPORT: More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims - Challenge UN IPCC & Gore Climate Depot Exclusive: 321-page 'Consensus Buster' Report set to further chill UN Climate Summit in Cancun Link to Complete 321-Page PDF Special Report INTRODUCTION: More than 1,000 dissenting scientists (updates previous 700 scientist report) from around the globe have now challenged man-made global warming claims made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore. This new 2010 321-page Climate Depot Special Report -- updated from the 2007 groundbreaking U.S. Senate Report of over 400 ...
WikiLeaks Supporters’ Group To Republish Cables
Post Date: 2010-12-11 19:27:51 by Brian S
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LONDON (Reuters) - A loose grouping of cyber activists supporting WikiLeaks has abandoned its strategy of online attacks on organizations seen as hostile to the site in favor of spreading the leaked documents far and wide online. Internet activists operating under the name "Anonymous" temporarily brought down this week the websites of credit card giants MasterCard and Visa -- both of which had stopped processing donations to WikiLeaks. The United States, enraged and embarrassed by WikiLeaks' publication of thousands of confidential U.S. diplomatic cables, has leant on organizations from Amazon to online payments service PayPal -- which have now withdrawn services to ...
Worldwide Demonstrations Support WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange
Post Date: 2010-12-11 19:11:49 by Brian S
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Saturday, December 11th, 2010 -- 3:28 pm Worldwide demonstrations support WikiLeaks founder Julian AssangeSpanish online supporters of Julian Assange called for worldwide demonstrations Saturday to press for the release of the WikiLeaks founder, who is in a London jail awaiting possible extradition to Sweden to face rape charges. The Spanish website Free Wikileaks urged rallies at 6 p.m. (1700 GMT) in eight Spanish cities, including Madrid and Barcelona, while similar demonstrations were planned in Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Bogota and Lima. In a manifesto entitled "For freedom, Say No to State Terrorism," it demanded "the release of Julian Assange ...
Questions: LF website graphic, Liberty's Flame
Post Date: 2010-12-11 13:49:06 by buckeroo
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I have surfed the Internet for many years and the ugliest image for a website is: I want to ask a few questions as a result. Did the site manager go out of his way to pay or direct this same image? If it was paid for, how much did it cost? And how much time was used on the same graphic? Why isn't there any continuity between the image and the general ugly pale blue background that the site manifests?
Report: Assange Accuser Flees To Middle East(West Bank), May Not Be Cooperating With Police
Post Date: 2010-12-10 11:26:48 by Brian S
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One of the two Swedish women who have filed sex complaints against the founder of WikiLeaks has reportedly left Sweden and may no longer be cooperating with the criminal investigation. According to a report at Australian news site Crikey.com, Anna Ardin has moved to the Palestinian territories to volunteer with a Christian group working to reconcile Arabs and Israelis. Crikey.com reports: One source from Ardin’s old university of Uppsala reported rumors that she had stopped co-operating with the prosecution service several weeks ago, and that this was part of the reason for the long delay in proceeding with charges41;—41;and what still appears to be an absence of charges. ...
WikiLeaks Gets Its Own 'Axis of Evil' Defense Network
Post Date: 2010-12-10 00:53:28 by Brian S
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The cyberattacks are starting to look like the onset of a global struggle by Web anarchists against the mighty EmpireBy Mathew Ingram If the WikiLeaks saga were a comic book, it would be starting to look a lot like the Justice League of America vs. the League of Supervillians—or maybe it's more like Star Wars, with the plucky rebel alliance up against the might of the Empire. As the U.S. government and a variety of corporations, such as Visa (V) and PayPal (EBAY), keep up the pressure on the document-leaking organization that they see as a traitor and a scofflaw, a rough alliance of supporters have taken it upon themselves to wage a cyberwar in WikiLeaks' defense by attacking ...
Pro-WikiLeaks Cyber Army Gains Strength; Thousands Join DDoS Attacks
Post Date: 2010-12-09 19:24:55 by Brian S
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Volunteers download attack tool, organizers recruit hacker botnets, say researchers Gregg Keizer The retaliatory attacks by pro-WikiLeaks activists are growing in strength as hackers add botnets and thousands of people download an open-source attack tool, security researchers said today. In recent days, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been launched against several sites, including those belonging to Amazon, MasterCard, PayPal and the Swiss payment transaction firm PostFinance, after each terminated WikiLeaks accounts or pulled the plug on services. As of Thursday, WikiLeaks had posted the full text of more than 1,200 leaked U.S. State Department cables from its trove ...
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