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South Korea, U.S. begin war games
Post Date: 2010-11-27 22:13:43 by go65
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The United States and South Korea began joint war games Sunday as South Koreans demanded vengeance over a deadly North Korean artillery bombardment that has raised fears of more clashes between the bitter rivals. Meanwhile, the North worked to justify one of the worst attacks on South Korean territory since the 1950-53 Korean War. Four South Koreans, including two civilians, died Tuesday when the North rained artillery on the small Yellow Sea island of Yeonpyeong, which is home to both fishing communities and military bases. North Korea said civilians were used as a "human shield" around artillery positions and lashed out at what it called a "propaganda campaign" ...
Workers recalled as North Korea prepares for war
Post Date: 2010-11-27 18:43:19 by WhiteSands
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A mass exodus of North Korean workers from the Far East of Russia is under way, according to reports coming out of the region. As the two Koreas edged towards the brink of war this week, it appears that the workers in Russia have been called back to aid potential military operations. Vladnews agency, based in Vladivostok, reported that North Korean workers had left the town of Nakhodka en masse shortly after the escalation of tension on the Korean peninsula earlier this week. "Traders have left the kiosks and markets, workers have abandoned building sites, and North Korean secret service employees working in the region have joined them and left," the agency reported. ...
41 rapes in Norway by non-indigenous Norwegians
Post Date: 2010-11-27 18:38:41 by WhiteSands
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China Issues Warning Ahead Of US-South Korea Drills
Post Date: 2010-11-26 12:26:36 by Brian S
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SEOUL: China warned on Friday against military acts near its coastline ahead of US-South Korean naval exercises that North Korea, days after shelling a South Korean island, said risked pushing the region toward war. Beijing's warning came as the Seoul government named a career soldier as its new defense minister amid mounting criticism of the response to Tuesday's attack by North Korea, its heaviest bombardment since the 1950-53 Korean War. North Korean artillery shells rained down on the small South Korean island of Yeonpyeong on Tuesday, killing four people and destroying dozens of houses. "The situation on the Korean peninsula is inching closer to the brink of war due to ...
North Korea Issues Warning as Artillery Fire Rattles Island
Post Date: 2010-11-26 12:25:01 by Brian S
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By MARTIN FACKLER Published: November 26, 2010 * E-Mail * Print * Reprints SEOUL, South Korea — Tension mounted on Friday near a South Korean island bombarded this week by North Korea as Pyongyang’s military again fired artillery, this time in what appeared to be a drill on its own territory. The North’s state-run media warned that a planned United States-South Korean military exercise could push the Korean Peninsula closer to “the brink of war.” Enlarge This Image Yonhap/Reuters A North Korean navy ship off a North Korean village on Friday, seen from South Korea. Meanwhile, South Korea struggled with the domestic political fallout from Tuesday’s deadly ...
Nine Years, 50 Days: US Presence In Afghanistan As long As Soviet Slog
Post Date: 2010-11-26 12:22:19 by Brian S
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The Soviet Union couldn't win in Afghanistan, and now the United States is about to have something in common with that futile campaign: nine years, 50 days. On Friday, the U.S.-led coalition will have been fighting in this South Asian country for as long as the Soviets did in their humbling attempt to build up a socialist state. The two invasions had different goals — and dramatically different body counts — but whether they have significantly different outcomes remains to be seen. What started out as a quick war on Oct. 7, 2001, by the U.S. and its allies to wipe out al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and the Taliban has instead turned into a long and slogging campaign. Now ...
Eating the Irish
Post Date: 2010-11-26 11:48:38 by go65
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What we need now is another Jonathan Swift. Most people know Swift as the author of “Gulliver’s Travels.” But recent events have me thinking of his 1729 essay “A Modest Proposal,” in which he observed the dire poverty of the Irish, and offered a solution: sell the children as food. “I grant this food will be somewhat dear,” he admitted, but this would make it “very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children.” O.K., these days it’s not the landlords, it’s the bankers — and they’re just impoverishing the populace, not eating it. But only a satirist ...
What’s With The Brits?
Post Date: 2010-11-26 09:55:03 by Skip MacLure
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It’s not your grandpa’s MI6. Britain behaves like a defeated nation. The government so fears the muslims in its own population that they would align themselves with those who would see them destroyed. Stuxnet is raising Cain with not only Iran’s centrifuges but, as I predicted, their military targeting computers as well. It’s no coincidence that there are reports of penetration of Iranian air space during such periods. I have no idea where Stuxnet was spawned. The implication was that it was done by hackers… I believe that it was a creation of Israel with the aid of the US. I said that Iranian claims that they had cornered the critter and all was rosy were so ...
Is Wi-Fi killing trees? Dutch study shows leaves dying after exposure
Post Date: 2010-11-24 23:04:17 by WhiteSands
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As if our magnificent trees didn’t have enough problems, they’re now being threatened by our emails. When they’re not being assailed by some foreign bug or moth, there’s often a council official looking for an excuse to cut them down. Now researchers say radiation from wi-fi networks that enable our burgeoning online communications may be their latest enemy. Research in Holland showed that trees that were planted in close proximity to a wireless router suffered from damaged bark and dying leaves. The alarming study will raise fears that Wi-Fi radiation may also be having an effect on the human body and will lend weight to parents and teachers who have campaigned to ...
UPDATE 2-All 29 Trapped New Zealand Miners Dead-Police
Post Date: 2010-11-24 11:56:14 by Murron
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UPDATE 2-All 29 Trapped New Zealand Miners Dead-Police Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:08am EST * All 29 miners believed dead-police * Massive second explosion rocks mine * Angry relatives say not enough done to save miners (Updates with 2nd explosion, 29 miners dead, quotes) By Gyles Beckford GREYMOUTH, New Zealand, Nov 24 (Reuters) - All 29 miners trapped underground in a New Zealand mine for five days are believed to be dead following a second explosion in the Pike River Coal mine, police said on Wednesday. "It is our belief that no one has survived and everyone will have perished. This is one of the most tragic things I have had to do as a police officer," police superintendent ...
Obama Dispatches Aircraft Carrier to Yellow Sea After North Korean Attack
Post Date: 2010-11-24 11:04:21 by Brian S
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Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. sent an aircraft carrier to take part in exercises off the Korean Peninsula in a show of strength after North Korea fired artillery onto South Korean soil for the first time in half a century. President Barack Obama talked with South Korean counterpart Lee Myung Bak for 30 minutes by phone and dispatched the USS George Washington from Japan today to take part in the drills. These will take place off the South’s western coast from Nov. 28-Dec. 1, the U.S. Forces Korea said in an e-mailed statement. There are about 25,000 American troops stationed in South Korea. “The United States stands shoulder to shoulder with our close friend and ally,” ...
Al Gore Mea Culpa: Support for Corn-Based Ethanol Was a Mistake
Post Date: 2010-11-24 06:48:20 by sneakypete
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Now he tells us. Al Gore says his support for corn-based ethanol subsidies while serving as vice president was a mistake that had more to do with his desire to cultivate farm votes in the 2000 presidential election than with what was good for the environment. "It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for first-generation ethanol," Gore said at a green energy conference in Athens, Greece, according to Reuters. First generation refers to the most basic, energy-intensive process of converting corn to ethanol for use as a motor vehicle fuel additive. On reflection, Gore said the energy conversion ratios -- how much energy is produced in the process -- "are at ...
Shocked Survivors Flee North Korean Attack
Post Date: 2010-11-23 19:06:09 by Brian S
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Incheon, South Korea (CNN) -- On a bitterly cold night at Incheon port, the old and frail emerge into the light. They have been ferried here to safety, many still in shock after being caught in the crossfire as North and South Korea traded fire on the island of Yeonpyeong. Ko Young Hae, 86, has spent her whole life on the island. Surrounded by media, she tells of how she was all alone and someone helped her to a boat. "I am OK," she says. "I'm alive and I have survived." Others hug each other. One young man says he heard a loud bang, then he rushed to safety at a nearby school. Cameras captured much of the attack. They show shells raining down and buildings on ...
Reunification?!
Post Date: 2010-11-23 18:46:51 by Skip MacLure
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“Up in the North things are looking uglier than at any time since the armistice. If we get committed in Iran/Iraq, look for the North, probably at the instigation of the North’s masters in China, to try something, possibly causing us to have to reinforce the troops there in the South now. Pure speculation I agree, but don’t forget that on June 25,1950, the last thing our military command in the Far East was looking for was the North Koreans boiling across the border between the two Koreas, destroying everything in their path.” That was an extract from Skip’s article from April 5, 2010 (‘South Korea… Shut Up And Smile’). Well, it appears that ...
Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor
Post Date: 2010-11-23 18:05:08 by WhiteSands
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man was an impostor, and high-level discussions conducted with the assistance of NATO appear to have achieved little. “It’s not him,” said a Western diplomat in Kabul intimately involved in the discussions. “And we gave him a lot of money.” American officials confirmed Monday that they had given up hope that the Afghan was Mr. Mansour, or even a member of the Taliban leadership. NATO and Afghan officials said they held three meetings with the man, who traveled from in Pakistan, where Taliban leaders have taken refuge. The fake Taliban leader even met with President Hamid Karzai, having been flown to Kabul on a NATO aircraft and ushered into the presidential ...
Timing, Noodging Advance New Push For Jonathan Pollard
Post Date: 2010-11-23 13:46:26 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A combination of timing, diplomatic considerations and, above all, good old-fashioned noodging has culminated in the biggest push in years to free Jonathan Pollard. Insiders associated with the push, which resulted last week in a congressional letter to President Obama asking for clemency for the American Jew convicted in 1987 of spying for Israel, say the main factor was one man: David Nyer, an Orthodox activist from Monsey, N.Y. Nyer, working under the auspices of the National Council of Young Israel and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, repeatedly called dozens of congressional offices and pressed Jewish groups asking for a leader ...
S. Korea Vows 'Stern Retaliation' Against N. Korea's Attack
Post Date: 2010-11-23 12:39:31 by Brian S
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By Lee Chi-dong SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak ordered his military Tuesday to punish North Korea for its artillery attacks "through action," not just words, saying it is important to stop the communist regime from contemplating additional provocation. "The provocation this time can be regarded as an invasion of South Korean territory. In particular, indiscriminate attacks on civilians are a grave matter," a stern-faced Lee said during a visit to the headquarters of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in central Seoul. The North fired some 100 coastline artillery rounds across the western sea border onto Yeonpyeong Island Tuesday ...
North Korea fires artillery barrage on South
Post Date: 2010-11-23 11:48:44 by WhiteSands
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SEOUL (AFP) – North Korea fired dozens of artillery shells onto a South Korean island on Tuesday, killing one person, setting homes ablaze and triggering an exchange of fire as the South's military went on top alert. In what appeared to be one of the most serious border incidents since the 1950-53 war, South Korean troops fired back with cannon, the government convened in an underground war room and "multiple" air force jets scrambled. The firing came after North Korea's disclosure of an apparently operational uranium enrichment programme -- a second potential way of building a nuclear bomb -- which is causing serious alarm for the United States and its allies. ...
Two Soldiers Die As North, South Korea Trade Artillery Fire
Post Date: 2010-11-23 11:11:06 by Brian S
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Seoul - North Korean artillery shells rained down Tuesday on a South Korean island near their disputed western sea border, killing two South Korean soldiers and setting forests and dozens of houses ablaze, the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul said. At least 16 South Korean soldiers were injured, and three civilians were hurt on Yeonpyeong island, which was shrouded in smoke from the fires. Its 1,600 residents were told to evacuate to shelters, and some fled by fishing boat. The North fired about 100 shells and the South returned fire, firing 80 shells and targeting artillery positions on the North's coast, the Defence Ministry and Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul said. The exchange of ...
Report: Airline apologizes after strip-searching US professor
Post Date: 2010-11-22 20:33:42 by go65
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TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- Israel's national airline El Al on Monday apologized to a visiting professor strip- searched on her way to conference in Jerusalem, an Israeli newspaper reported. Heather Bradshaw, a neuroscientist, was travelling from the UK to Israel at the invitation of Hebrew University when she was subjected a physical examination in which she was asked to remove her bra. She told the Israeli daily Haaretz that El Al security personnel detained her at Luton airport in London on 31 October, confiscated all of her belongings, and repeatedly questioned her. After nearly an hour of examinations, she was reportedly reprimanded for holding up the flight. Before leaving ...
Germany closes famous glass dome at Berlin's Reichstag to visitors as terror fears mount
Post Date: 2010-11-22 18:33:53 by WhiteSands
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The world famous glass dome atop the Berlin Reichstag has been closed to all visitors as fears mount of an impending terrorist attack in the capital. German parliament closed the dome, designed by Lord Foster, which thousands of tourists usually visit daily for unparalleled views of the city on Monday The 116-year-old Reichstag building houses Germany’s parliament and is now thought to be the number one target for a commando squad plotting a Mumbai-style massacre. Last week the interior minister announced 'concrete indications' of a terror plot about to come to fruition. Security spiked at all major airports and railway stations across Germany. Police believe at least two ...
At Least 339 Die in Stampede in Cambodia
Post Date: 2010-11-22 17:42:41 by WhiteSands
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Thousands of Cambodians celebrating a water festival on an island in a river in the capital stampeded Monday night, leaving at least 339 people dead and the area littered with hundreds of injured. As the panic grew, the crowd tried to flee over a bridge, and many fell over its sides into the water. Ambulances raced back and forth between the river and the hospitals for several hours after the stampede, while onlookers and relatives waited outside the medical facilities. Many of the injured appeared to be badly hurt, raising the prospect that the death toll could rise sharply as local hospitals could easily become overwhelmed. Hours after the chaos, hundreds of ...
Bolivian Leader Lectures Gates About US Behavior
Post Date: 2010-11-22 15:28:49 by Brian S
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SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales had a blunt message for the visiting U.S. Pentagon chief on Monday: Latin American nations will pick their own friends and business partners, including Iran, regardless of U.S. opinion. The colorful leftist leader delivered an hourlong welcome to delegates at a regional defense conference that included U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Morales never mentioned Gates by name. But most of the speech, and all of the applause lines, were clearly directed at the Pentagon chief and former head of the CIA. Bolivia is more democratic and representative than the United States, Morales said, and democracy would improve in the entire ...
Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick, Study Says
Post Date: 2010-11-22 14:43:44 by WhiteSands
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Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in the Netherlands.Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in the Netherlands. All deciduous trees in the Western world are affected, according to the study by Wageningen University. The city of Alphen aan den Rijn ordered the study five years ago after officials found unexplained abnormalities on trees that couldn't be ascribed to a virus or bacterial infection. Additional testing found the ...
Third-Most-Wanted Nazi War Criminal Dies Before Trial Opens
Post Date: 2010-11-22 14:13:15 by Brian S
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The Nazi guard who was third on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's most-wanted list has died at his home in Germany, authorities said. Presumed Nazi war criminal Samuel Kunz passed away before he could be brought to trial. There were no details released on the cause of death. In July, Kunz was indicted by a German court of actually killing 10 people himself and helping murder some 430,000 during his time as a trainee and guard at the SS Trawniki and Belzec death camps. He was at those camps from January 1942 through July 1943. Both were located in then-occupied Poland. Involved in the whole camp process In the indictment, prosecutors said Kunz was involved in the entire process of ...
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