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Al Qaeda Promises U.S. Death By A 'Thousand Cuts'
Post Date: 2010-11-22 12:29:52 by Brian S
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Terror Group Boasts That Printer Bomb Cost Only $4200, Meant To Bleed U.S. Economy Nov. 21, 2010 Printer bombs planted on two cargo flights last month cost only a few thousand dollars and were intended to affect the American economy, according to a newly published Al Qaeda-affiliated magazine. The attempt was called "Operation Hemorrhage," boasted the magazine, and the entire plot cost al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, only $4,200. Yesterday, a special edition of Inspire magazine -- an English-language propaganda publication produced by AQAP -- gave a detailed description of how the attempted attack was conceived and produced. "Two Nokia mobiles, $150 each, ...
Record U.S. Exports Reflect Midwest Boom With 3.7% Unemployment
Post Date: 2010-11-22 12:15:29 by Brian S
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Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The unemployment rate in North Dakota is 3.7 percent, and “if it wasn’t for cable news, we probably wouldn’t have any idea that the rest of the country was any different,” said Doug Johnson, co-owner of crop insurer TCI Insurance in West Fargo, who added six new employees this year. As businesses across the U.S. struggle to recover from the deepest recession since World War II and the national jobless rate remains stuck at 9.6 percent, Johnson has benefited from his location in the northern Great Plains, where a boom in commodities, such as wheat and soybeans, is helping to create jobs, lift farmers’ incomes and fuel demand for goods ...
Wikileaks: Next Batch Of Secret Documents Seven Times Larger Than Iraq War Logs
Post Date: 2010-11-22 12:01:15 by Brian S
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STOCKHOLM — Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks said Monday it was planning to publish nearly three million more secret documents in its next mass release of confidential material, according to its Twitter feed. WikiLeaks did not say when the release would be, nor on what subject, but the number of documents would be seven times larger than its release last month when it posted some 400,000 secret documents about the war in Iraq on its site. "Next release is 7x the size of the Iraq War Logs. intense pressure over it for months. Keep us strong," WikiLeaks said on its Twitter feed, adding a link to a donations website. It would be WikiLeaks' third mass release of classified ...
Ireland requests billions in euro loans from EU
Post Date: 2010-11-21 23:29:43 by go65
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(CNN) -- Ireland has formally requested substantial "financial assistance" from the European Union and International Monetary Fund to buttress the government and bolster its struggling banking sector, Prime Minister Brian Cowen said Sunday night. "I want to assure the Irish people that we have a better future before us," Cowen said in announcing the request, as well as pledging substantial budget cuts and tax hikes. European Union financial ministers said they would "welcome the request," according to a joint statement issued soon after Cowen's announcement. Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan said his European colleagues agreed to take on the request ...
Tent Cities, Homelessness And Soul-Crushing Despair: The Legacy Of Decades Of Government Debt And Mismanagement Of The Economy
Post Date: 2010-11-20 13:35:34 by Capitalist Eric
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For decades, our politicians have been deeply addicted to government debt, they have stood idly by as millions of our jobs have been shipped overseas and they have passed countless business-crushing regulations and they never thought that it would catch up with us. Well, it has. America has been living in the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world, and now that bubble is starting to pop. There has never been such an extended period of unemployment in the United States since the Great Depression, and millions of Americans are losing their homes. Homelessness is skyrocketing, tent cities are popping up everywhere and countless numbers of American families are experiencing the ...
Senate Approves $4.6B for Black Farmers, Indians (cuts surplus child nutrition)
Post Date: 2010-11-19 19:38:47 by Hondo68
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(CBS/AP) The Senate has approved almost $4.6 billion to settle long-standing claims brought by American Indians and black farmers against the government. The money has been held up for months in the Senate as Democrats and Republicans squabbled over how to pay for it. The two class action lawsuits were filed over a decade ago. The settlements include almost $1.2 billion for black farmers and $3.4 billion would go to Indian landowners. The legislation was approved in the Senate by voice vote Friday and sent to the House. The farmers sued after decades of discrimination by the agriculture department in providing loans and other support, reports CBS News' Bob Fuss, while the Native ...
Israel: Knesset Committee Rejects Abortion Bill
Post Date: 2010-11-18 14:35:03 by Brian S
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The Ministerial Committee on Legislative Affairs on Monday rejected a private bill proposed by Knesset Member Nissim Zeev (Shas) prohibiting abortions after the 22nd week of pregnancy, and implementing a change in the current law which allows abortions during later stages of the pregnancy. In his commentary on the bill to amend the penal law on abortions, MK Zeev wrote: "At 22 weeks the fetus is alive and termination of the pregnancy is murder of the fetus and not 'abortion'. This is why the claim that prevention of abortion is interfering in a woman's rights to her body cannot justify the termination of the pregnancy at this stage". According to the MK, termination ...
Iran Says It Tested New Air Defense Missile System
Post Date: 2010-11-18 13:02:24 by Brian S
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran has successfully tested a newly developed air defense missile system during the country's biggest ever air defense drill, the country's military announced Thursday. Iran's state television said the test was Tehran's response to Moscow's refusal to deliver the advanced Russian S-300 air defense system amid U.N. and international sanctions on the country. Gen. Hamid Arjangi, a spokesman for the five-day exercise, said the system - known as Mersad, or Ambush in Farsi - and Shahin, or Hawk, were developed by Iranian scientists and is capable of identifying and hitting targets at low and medium altitudes. "This medium-range air defense system ...
Haiti cholera death toll passes 1,000
Post Date: 2010-11-16 22:50:43 by WhiteSands
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Haiti's cholera death toll has passed 1,000 as mounting anger at the health crisis sees tensions spike. The health ministry says the cholera death toll has risen to 1,034, with about 16,800 people hospitalised since the disease surfaced in late October. Some locals are accusing Nepalese United Nations peacekeepers of bringing the disease to the earthquake-hit nation. Burning tires have sent thick black smoke across the northern city of Cap-Haitien, where thousands of protesters went on a rampage Monday (local time), setting a police station ablaze and threatening to torch a UN compound. Two Haitians died in the riots, including one shot by a peacekeeper in an incident that raised ...
U.S. Taxpayers Are Paying For Israel's West Bank Occupation
Post Date: 2010-11-16 19:52:05 by Brian S
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Travelers along the "original" West Bank roads, the ones enabling drivers to bypass Palestinian villages, can see signs declaring "USAID from the American People." The roads are one of the initiatives of the United States Agency for International Development for building infrastructure in underdeveloped countries. Israel has already proudly left the club of developing countries and is not among the clients of USAID. Nevertheless, it appears the Smith family of Illinois is making the occupation a little less expensive for the Cohen family of Petah Tikva. According to a June 2010 fact sheet on the USAID Internet site, last year American taxpayers funded the paving of 63 ...
Obama’s Whirlwind Asian Tour Was An Epic Fail
Post Date: 2010-11-16 09:29:38 by no gnu taxes
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You know that whole Asian trip Obama took? Well, it was supposed to be a big ol’ “economic mission.” Turns out that he struck out big-time. And hold on – that’s not a right-wing nutjob political blogger saying that. Nor is it Fox News. It’s the lamestream media, everyone. So, according to the left, it must be objective and true. First, ABC News (hats off to Breitbart.com) had some choice words. In fact, they flat-out used a baseball analogy and detailed the three strikes Obama made at bat: Aaaaand, then you have CBS, who called the G-20 summit and Obama’s failure to create 70,000 whole jobs an “embarrassing disappointment.” But the trip ...
Aid Workers Fear Cholera Epidemic May Overwhelm Haitian Hospitals
Post Date: 2010-11-15 19:20:19 by WhiteSands
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Haitian hospitals face overcrowding as the cholera epidemic continues to spread through the impoverished country. As of Nov. 12, more than 917 people had died and at least 14,600 had been hospitalized, the Haitian government said Sunday. Health care workers consider those numbers to be understated. The United Nations forecasted up to 200,000 Haitians could contract cholera as the outbreak extends. Aid workers fear the growing numbers may soon overwhelm Haiti’s health care facilities. “In this hospital, because of space constraints, we have to make sure that people can be sent to another place where we can provide better care very fast, so that we can still receive,” ...
U.S. Offers Israel $3 Billion For Illegal Settlement Construction Freeze
Post Date: 2010-11-15 11:34:51 by Brian S
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(November 15,Tel Aviv, Sri Lanka Guardian) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's seven-member inner cabinet discussed Saturday an offer by the United States to reinstate a freeze on West Bank Settlement construction in return for a package of incentives. Netanyahu presented Saturday the U.S. offer, which was discussed by Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday, to the forum of seven. According to the offer Israel would stop construction in the West Bank for 90 days. The freeze includes construction that began after the end of the first settlement moratorium on September 26. The moratorium would not apply to construction in East Jerusalem. The U.S. will not ask ...
Report: U.S. Offered Nazis a 'Safe Haven' in America After World War II
Post Date: 2010-11-14 15:06:03 by WhiteSands
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A Justice Department report offers new evidence that the United States created a "safe haven" in America for Nazis and their collaborators following the end of World War II, The New York Times reports. The 600-page report, which the Justice Department has reportedly tried to keep secret, describes the roles of the lawyers, historians and investigators at the agency’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI) in pursuing the most notorious Nazi cases of the past 30 years. According to The Times, the report also details the government’s posthumous pursuit of Dr. Josef Mengele, the German SS officer and physician known as the “Angel of Death”; the former Waffen SS ...
Eric Cantor's Pledge of Allegiance {Cantor violates law by his own standard}
Post Date: 2010-11-13 22:52:50 by Rhino
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Eric Cantor's Pledge of Allegiance By Glenn Greenwald * (updated below) Soon-to-be GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor met on Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- the same day when the actual U.S. Secretary of State met with Netanyahu -- and vowed that he and his GOP colleagues would protect and defend Israeli interests against his own Government. According to a statement proudly issued by Cantor's own office: Regarding the midterms, Cantor may have given Netanyahu some reason to stand firm against the American administration. "Eric stressed that the new Republican majority will serve as a check on the Administration and what has been, up until ...
Embarrassment in Seoul
Post Date: 2010-11-12 23:28:08 by WhiteSands
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Has there ever been a major economic summit where a U.S. President and his Treasury Secretary were as thoroughly rebuffed as they were at this week's G-20 meeting in Seoul? We can't think of one. President Obama failed to achieve any of his main goals while getting pounded by other world leaders for failing U.S. policies and lagging growth. The root of this embarrassment is political and intellectual: Rather than leading the world from a position of strength, Mr. Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner came to Seoul blaming the rest of the world for U.S. economic weakness. America's problem, in their view, is the export and exchange rate policies of the Germans, Chinese ...
Elections Put Nook-Nosed, Blood-Sucking, Bible Exploiting Pro-Israel Neo-Cons Back On Top
Post Date: 2010-11-12 17:30:13 by Brian S
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The Republican Party’s takeover of the House of Representatives in the recent election also ushers in a consolidation of pro-Israeli political influence over Congress unlike ever before. Then, too—not coincidentally—it heralds a new era in which secret campaign contributions by big-money interests are now holding sway in an unprecedented way. Exemplifying these new developments is the rapid-fire rise of Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), a deeply religious Orthodox Jew and pro-Israeli “neo-conservative” hard-liner who is expected to be named House majority leader in the forthcoming GOP-controlled Congress. Although the majority leader post is officially the No. 2 slot in ...
Taliban Stealing U.S. Army Uniforms
Post Date: 2010-11-12 11:18:22 by Brian S
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Pentagon officials are warning commanders not to ship Army uniforms through the usual U.S. supply routes in Pakistan and Afghanistan because Taliban fighters are stealing them to "gain a tactical advantage on the battlefield." In a message obtained by POLITICO, the Pentagon tells Army commanders that certain uniform items should be treated as "sensitive cargo" and flown into Afghanistan, not shipped over land, so they won't be intercepted. “There is evidence that the enemy is using pilfered out-garment uniform items to gain a tactical advantage on the battlefield. We must take every measure to prevent this pilferance,” the message said. “U.S. ...
Council on Foreign Relations Panel Advises Obama To Scale Back Afghan Occupation
Post Date: 2010-11-12 11:12:48 by Brian S
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Influential US experts on Friday painted a grim picture of the Afghanistan war, calling on President Barack Obama to consider scaling back the military mission without signs of progress. The task force of the Council on Foreign Relations largely backed the Obama administration's plan of intensifying military operations against the Taliban and starting a withdrawal in mid-2011. But the panel -- led by Richard Armitage and Samuel Berger, top aides to presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton -- said the administration needed to take hard decisions after its own highly anticipated war review in December. The task force noted the nine-year-old war's toll at a time of austerity. The ...
Iran Produces Its Own Version Of Russian S-300 Missile
Post Date: 2010-11-11 19:42:55 by Brian S
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Iranian Army has developed its own version of Russian S-300 missile that will test soon, the official IRNA news agency said, just two months after Moscow decided to cancel the delivery to the Islamic Republic of sophisticated defense system to comply with sanctions imposed on Tehran by the UN. “The Iranian version of S-300 missile is still being assembled, but will be tested soon,” said Brigadier General Mohammad Hassan today Mansourian, one of the commanders of Revolutionary Guards, the elite units of the Iranian army.
Top US Republican Meets Netanyahu
Post Date: 2010-11-11 19:40:16 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — A top US Republican has assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the party, which romped in last week's elections, cherishes the allies' "special relationship," the lawmaker's office said Thursday. Number-two House Republican Eric Cantor and Netanyahu also discussed Iran and the embattled Middle East peace process during an hour-long meeting late Wednesday in New York, the congressman's spokesman Brad Dayspring said in a statement. Cantor, the only Jewish Republican in the US Congress, "stressed that the new Republican majority will serve as a check on the administration and what has been, up until this point, one party rule ...
Former Schröder Spokesman Questions Bush's Intelligence
Post Date: 2010-11-11 19:31:24 by Brian S
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Already having been branded a liar by former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, ex-US President George W. Bush's intelligence has now been questioned by Schröder's former spokesman. Uwe-Karsten Heye said on Wednesday that Bush "had no idea about what was going on in the world." Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is hardly a popular figure in Germany these days. His own party, the Social Democrats, has distanced itself from the reforms he made to the country's welfare system. And his decision to take a post-Chancellery job with a company owned by the Russian state-owned fossil fuels firm Gazprom has been widely criticized. This week, however, he ...
China's Hu Rebuffs Weakened Obama at Summit
Post Date: 2010-11-11 15:52:56 by Happy Quanzaa
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SEOUL—President Barack Obama limped toward the close of the Group of 20 summit, weakened by an anemic economic recovery and an election drubbing that has left world leaders questioning U.S. authority. In private meetings with Mr. Obama Thursday, Chinese President Hu Jintao resisted his pressure on currency revaluation. Mr. Obama also failed to secure a free-trade agreement with South Korea by his imposed Thursday deadline, a blow to a U.S. president who has pledged to double U.S. exports over the next five years. The G-20 summit is expected to conclude with a communiqué that papers over differences on fiscal and monetary policy that had burst into the open in the run-up to ...
A Marked Contrast.
Post Date: 2010-11-11 15:25:27 by Skip MacLure
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So much for the British stiff-upper-lip, gentlemanly behavior and London’s ‘wartime spirit’, that pulled this once Great Britain through the darkest of times. One of the stereotypical traits of the Englishman, which some found endearing, others darn frustrating, was their reserve. Indeed, ‘The Equalizer’ could force a New York street gang to give up with just the sound of his well-formed syllables. The scenes of violence and destruction at the heart of London yesterday would have been unthought of not so many years ago. There have been protests aplenty… union pickets sometimes stepping over the line between law and disorder, or students ‘squatting’ ...
Lawrence Kudlow: The world against Bernanke and his easy money
Post Date: 2010-11-11 14:20:40 by Happy Quanzaa
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Now the great Bernanke QE2 debate continues to heat up. In the run-up to the G-20 meetings, China, Russia, Germany and others have all come out against the Federal Reserve's quantitative-easing agenda. They don't want hot-money excess dollars to flow into their higher-yielding currencies. The assault against Bernanke's easy money has reached such fever that President Obama felt it necessary to defend the $600 billion in new-money printing in a news conference in India. Meanwhile, World Bank President Robert Zoellick has actually called for putting gold back into global money, in order to use it as an international reference point to measure market expectations over inflation ...
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