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Hayden Says Iran Won’t Build Nuke Bomb
Post Date: 2010-10-19 22:04:44 by WhiteSands
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Addressing a broad range of issues including Iran's nuclear ambitions and the current threat of terrorist attacks, former CIA Director Michael Hayden spoke for 90 minutes Tuesday offering praise and criticism to the intelligence community and the Obama Administration. While careful to remind his audience that he is no longer in government, having left the CIA in 2009, Hayden remains plugged-in to the intelligence community and is a respected voice on matters covering the globe. The retired Air Force general thinks Iranian officials have developed their nuclear program to be fully capable of building a nuclear weapon but not actually complete the task. "That gives them all the ...
Russia's sexy spy Anna Chapman in provocative photoshoot
Post Date: 2010-10-19 16:46:34 by Happy Quanzaa
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Russian spy Anna Chapman posed in the Russian version of Maxim magazine in the most provocative photographs yet to appear of the secret agent who was deported from the United States in July. A photograph on www.maximonline.ru shows red-haired Chapman dressed in nylon and lace and posing with a handgun. "Anna Chapman has done more to excite Russian patriotism than the Russian soccer team," wrote Maxim. SEE VIDEO OF THE PHOTO SHOOT Nine other spies were deported from the United States with her. The Kremlin has seized on the Cold War aspects of the case to try to boost the prestige of its intelligence services and avert what has widely been seen as a major disgrace for ...
DNA Shower Security System Test in Amsterdam
Post Date: 2010-10-19 12:24:53 by Ferret Mike
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands – The DNA shower is one of the latest invention in crime prevention. The system was installed in a high risk area in the metropolis Amsterdam in the Netherlands, within 8 weeks the crime rate sank with just over 60 percent, an incredible high success rate. The system works fairly simple, the moment a burglary is conducted the systems gets activated by the staff, either via a switch at the counter or a remote controller. The system is installed at the exit of the establishment, as soon as movement is detected the DNA spray, a mist of colorless, odorless and nearly non-detectable liquid, is sprayed on anything moving in close vicinity of the DNA shower system. ...
UK Cuts Armed Forces, Withdraws From Germany; Carriers Go Ahead
Post Date: 2010-10-19 11:41:01 by Brian S
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LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The U.K. will cut armed forces personnel, withdraw its forces from Germany and press ahead with building two aircraft carriers, Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday. Cameron delivered the long-awaited strategic defense and security review to the House of Commons, a program outlined earlier this year to cut spending to address a gaping budget deficit. Britain will cut 7,000 jobs from the army and 5,000 from each of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy. Forces will withdraw from Germany by 2020. Two aircraft carriers will be built after Cameron said the cost of canceling one of carriers was higher than the build cost.
Queer Saudi Prince convicted of killing butthole servant
Post Date: 2010-10-19 11:04:35 by Happy Quanzaa
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Video @ source CCTV of the prince assaulting his servant was shown at the Old Bailey A Saudi prince has been found guilty of murdering his servant at a hotel in central London. Bandar Abdulaziz, 32, was found beaten and strangled in the Landmark Hotel, Marylebone, on 15 February 2010. The Old Bailey was told the assault by Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud had a "sexual element" and he had attacked Mr Abdulaziz many times before. Al Saud, 34, had admitted manslaughter but denied murdering Mr Abdulaziz in their suite at the five-star hotel. Champagne and cocktails Continue reading the main story Related stories * Servant 'let prince murder him' * Saudi prince not to ...
Nightfall in America~The Obama deficits portend a gloomy future.
Post Date: 2010-10-19 10:26:42 by Happy Quanzaa
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Nightfall in America The Obama deficits portend a gloomy future. Is it, as President Reagan's re-election commercial said, "morning in America"? Back then it was, but not anymore; it is economic evening in America as our nation's spending, government programs and deficits balloon. The federal deficit this fiscal year will be $1.6 trillion, or about 10.6% of gross domestic product. That is the largest deficit since World War II, and even President Obama's optimistic estimates show our deficits will not return to sustainable levels for at least the next decade. The administration's projection of total federal spending over those 10 years (2011-20) is $45.8 ...
US abusing detainees in secret Afghan prison: report
Post Date: 2010-10-19 01:27:38 by WhiteSands
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NEW YORK — The US military is mistreating detainees -- and violating its own rules -- at a secret prison in Afghanistan, a US think tank said Friday in a report. The 16-page report by the Open Society Foundation said Afghans call the secret site "Tor Jail," or "Black Jail," and that consistent accounts from detainees refer to being kept without adequate shelter or food or other basic rights. The Pentagon quickly rejected abuses, but said it was looking into the allegations. "The Department of Defense does not operate any 'secret prisons,'" a spokesman said. Any classified "temporary screening/detention facilities" operate under ...
U.S. Apologizes for Abusive Guatemala Human Medical Experiments [ between 1946 and 1948, U.S. Public Health Service physicians deliberately infected at least 696 Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea ]
Post Date: 2010-10-19 01:07:04 by WhiteSands
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(SAN FRANCISCO) - In an Oct. 1, statement, the U.S. government acknowledged that between 1946 and 1948, U.S. Public Health Service physicians deliberately infected at least 696 Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea without their knowledge or consent to study the effect of venereal disease. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius formally apologized for the "abhorrent" and "clearly unethical" medical experiments. And on October 2, President Barack Obama apologized to his Guatemalan counterpart and vowed that all human medical studies conducted today will be held to exacting U.S. and international legal and ethical ...
Afghanistan To Probe Detainee Abuse Reports In Secret US Prison
Post Date: 2010-10-18 17:57:49 by WhiteSands
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Following new reports confirming violation of detainee rights in the secret US-run Bagram Prison in Afghanistan, the Afghan government appointed a committee to investigate the reports. An announcement from the president’s office indicates that a panel, which include the Minister of Justice and the head of the Independent Human Rights Commission, is charged with preparing its report within two weeks. The afghan president has ordered a probe into “illegal arrests and human rights violations in a secret prison run by US forces.” According to the report by Open Society Foundation, former Bagram prisoners have revealed that US forces placed them in solitary confinement, abused ...
Islamic court: OK to beat wife if no marks left
Post Date: 2010-10-18 17:26:44 by WhiteSands
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A man can beat his wife and kids as long as he leaves no physical marks, the United Arab Emirates' highest court has found. The judgment came after a man slapped his wife and kicked and slapped his daughter, according to Abu Dhabi's The National newspaper. In the case debated by the Federal Supreme court, the daughter was bruised on the hand and knee, while the wife's lip and teeth were injured. According to the court, the injuries showed that the man had over-stepped his rights under Shariah, or Islamic law, the newspaper reported. He had originally been fined 500 United Arab Emirates dirhams ($136), but appealed the case twice. At 23, the daughter was deemed too old to ...
Pollard's lawyers file clemency request with Obama
Post Date: 2010-10-18 17:00:33 by WhiteSands
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Exclusive: In light of new revelations of government malfeasance, Israeli agent's lawyers ask for his immediate release from prison. Talkbacks (96) Jonathan Pollard’s American attorneys, Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman, filed a new petition for clemency on Friday, asking that US President Barack Obama commute Pollard’s life sentence to the 25 years he has already served, The Jerusalem Post has learned. The petition comes amid a wave of calls for the release of the Israeli agent and following new revelations of apparent government malfeasance made public by senior officials with first-hand involvement in the case – former minister Rafi Eitan and former US assistant ...
French Riot Police Clash With Students As Petrol Stations Run Dry
Post Date: 2010-10-18 16:44:01 by Brian S
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Despite claims that it had petrol provision “under control”, the government said it had activated an emergency crisis cell charged with maintaining fuel supplies. The opposition Socialists criticised François Fillon, the prime minister, for failing to speak to the unions over proposed pension reforms, which would raise minimum and full retirement ages to 62 and 67. “We have a prime minister who thinks he is Churchill but who is only Thatcher,” said Harlem Désir, the Socialists’ deputy leader. “He is trying to make us think he is carrying out great reforms to save our economy but in fact he is smashing our social model.” The Socialists, ...
Pentagon Asks Media Not To Publish War Leaks
Post Date: 2010-10-18 13:53:00 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon on Monday asked media organizations not to publish any classified war files released by the WikiLeaks Web site, as the U.S. braces for the potential disclosure of hundreds of thousands of secret Iraq war documents. In July, WikiLeaks obtained and released nearly 77,000 classified military reports from Afghanistan. Now, the Pentagon says the group has as many as 400,000 documents from a military database on operations in Iraq. WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange on Monday downplayed expectations that a leak was imminent. In a Twitter post, Assange said information were coming from "a single tabloid blog" that had put out a "tremendous ...
Edelstein Confirms Pollard Release Discussions Underway
Post Date: 2010-10-18 13:01:51 by Brian S
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There have recently been high-level discussions in Israel on how to get clemency in the US for Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard, who has served nearly 25 years of a life sentence, Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein revealed on Sunday night.The Jerusalem Post reported exclusively on Sunday that Pollard’s American attorneys, Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman, had filed a new petition for clemency on Friday, asking that US President Barack Obama commute Pollard’s life sentence to the time he has already served.RELATED:Pollard's lawyers file clemency request with ObamaPollard: PM hasn't asked Obama to free meThe petition came amid a wave of calls for the release of the ...
Israel Says Hamas Has Anti-Aircraft Missiles
Post Date: 2010-10-18 12:59:24 by Brian S
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Gaza's Hamas rulers have obtained anti-aircraft missiles, Israel's prime minister said Monday, in a potentially game-changing development that could threaten the Israeli air force's ability to strike at the Islamic militant group. Israeli aircraft have long dominated the skies over Gaza, striking suspected Hamas military installations and assassinating dozens of wanted militants. The Israeli air force played a key role in a fierce three-week offensive in Gaza early last year, which began with airstrikes that killed hundreds of Hamas fighters. Speaking to his Likud Party, Netanyahu disclosed that Israel's aerial freedom has been compromised by the new ...
NATO Official: Bin Laden, Deputy Hiding In Northwest Pakistan
Post Date: 2010-10-18 12:40:47 by Brian S
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Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are believed to be hiding close to each other in houses in northwest Pakistan, but are not together, a senior NATO official said. "Nobody in al Qaeda is living in a cave," said the official, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the intelligence matters involved. Rather, al Qaeda's top leadership is believed to be living in relative comfort, protected by locals and some members of the Pakistani intelligence services, the official said. Pakistan has repeatedly denied protecting members of the al Qaeda leadership. The official said the general region where bin Laden is likely to ...
Hot Rodding in East Germany
Post Date: 2010-10-18 09:45:14 by sneakypete
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Poster Comment:Guys and gals,here is a hot rod event and drag race in East Germany. This ain't the 1950's that East Germans remember,though! Pay attention to the gray 1939 Ford coupe at 6:35 and 9:40. I sold him the 3 carb 292 Ford Y-Block engine in it last summer. This was his first run after getting the engine and car together,and he is still working out the bugs. Not to mention learning how to drag race. The car had a 327 Chevy engine in it when he bought it,but he wanted something more traditional,and decided on a Y-Block after hearing what they sound like and discovering they were more popular in the 50's than the Chevy engine was. They also beat the ...
Thousands Demonstrate in Tel Aviv against Racist Loyalty Oath Could the Netanyahu Government Fall over New Settlements?
Post Date: 2010-10-17 18:41:46 by Brian S
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Several thousand Jews and Arabs marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest the loyalty oath recently approved by the Israeli cabinet, which would force new candidates for Israeli citizenship to affirm their commitment to a “Jewish and Democratic” state. The measure was pushed by Avigdor Lieberman, the far, far rightwing leader of Yisrael Beitenu, the party of relatively recent immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union. The oath is considered racist by most Palestinian-Israelis and by many on the Israeli left. For a view that the Netanyahu government that passed the measure is profoundly anti-democratic, see Gershon Gorenberg in The American Prospect. In other news, the ...
FBI warned about Headley, Mumbai attack in 2005
Post Date: 2010-10-17 18:05:46 by Brian S
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In what looks like another failure in the Bush administration to protect the world’s citizens from terrorism, reports today say the FBI knew that Mumbai would be attacked three years before it happened. David Headley was a paid Drug Enforcement Agent in 2005. Headley was arrested on domestic assault charges that year after his wife was told that Headley had married another woman in Pakistan and fathered children there. His wife complained to FBI officials that Headley bragged about his work with the DEA and his training in Pakistan with terrorist militia. She also told the FBI that Headley had traveled five times to Mumbai. Headley had been scouting locations to carry out a terrorist ...
Shades Of A Bond Thriller.
Post Date: 2010-10-17 16:14:37 by Skip MacLure
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It’s pretty incredible stuff, more so as hard information coming out of Iran is so fragmented and sketchy. I’m speaking, of course, of the ‘accidental’ explosion at the Imam Ali base, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s arms and ammunition depot at a ‘secret’ facility, which had extensive underground storage and launching facilities for the Shahab-3 long-range missile. In fact, practically all of Iran’s inventory of the Shahab-3 was reportedly destroyed when (as the Iranians spun it) a fire got out of control at the base. Other Iranians blamed the Kurds. Kurds?! It must have been one hell of a raid. Just think about it… hundreds of miles through ...
Priest being investigated for criminal activity [ Newfoundland Roman Catholic Church in St. Fintan ]
Post Date: 2010-10-17 16:01:16 by WhiteSands
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The RCMP major crimes unit on the province’s west coast is investigating reports of criminal behaviour by a Roman Catholic priest. However, no charges have been laid against Father George Smith. The RCMP said the criminal behaviour allegedly occurred years ago, but they did not specify the nature of the alleged crime. “The RCMP are confirming a number of persons report that they were victimized, but will not be releasing any numbers of witnesses or potential victims,” said a news release issued by RCMP Sgt. Boyd Merrill. The investigation began this summer but progress has been slow because the people who need to be interviewed live all over Canada. “This matter ...
Europe’s Right Rises Again: 13% Of Germans Want A ‘Fuhrer’
Post Date: 2010-10-17 14:30:52 by Brian S
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Thirteen percent of Germans would welcome the arrival of a new "Fuhrer," a new study suggests in what may be the most striking example yet of the rise of right-wing extremism in Europe today. According to the Christian Science Monitor, more than a third of Germans feel the country is "overrun by foreigners," roughly 60 percent would "restrict the practice of Islam" and 17 percent believe Jews have "too much influence." The Irish Times reports: Researchers said a clear trend was visible: after almost a decade of decline, the survey indicates that views in favour of dictatorship, xenophobia and anti-Semitism are increasing in popularity. “In the ...
'There's no such thing as rape within marriage', says Muslim leader of sharia law courts in Britain
Post Date: 2010-10-16 19:53:42 by WhiteSands
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A senior Muslim cleric has been condemned by police and other Muslim leaders for claiming that there is no such thing as rape within marriage. Sheikh Maulana Abu Sayeed, president of the Islamic Sharia Council in Britain, sparked outrage when he said he believed that men who rape their wives should not be prosecuted because 'sex is part of marriage'. He further claimed, during an interview with the blog The Samosa, that many married women who made accusations of rape were lying. His comments have caused fury among senior police officers, who already face great difficulties in getting women to report rape - a crime that all too often goes under-reported. More... * Britain is ...
The Moral of the U.S. Syphilis Experiments in Guatemala
Post Date: 2010-10-16 18:09:01 by WhiteSands
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Read this account of the experiments carried out in the 1940s by "scientists" from a "civilized" nation in another country that was under its influence: The initial experiments involve the study of sex workers intentionally infected with Treponema pallidum [photo, left] as the source of infection for male inmates. At that time, the sex workers were admitted into the prisons. When the rate of male-female transmission proved low, the research approach changed to direct inoculation of inmates and patients in the psychiatric hospital. Most of the experiments involved subcutaneous injection of T. pallidum or exposure of the penile foreskin to infectious material. The ...
New claims of inmate abuse surface
Post Date: 2010-10-16 18:04:54 by WhiteSands
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Afghan prisoners taking part in a US study have claimed they were abused at a secret jail inside the main American military base in Afghanistan. Share Yahoo StumbleUpon Google Technorati del.icio.us Digg Reddit Mixx Propeller Former inmates told the Open Society Institute they were subjected to sleep deprivation, extended periods of isolation and a lack of food and blankets. Some of the claimed abuses date from this year, despite President Barack Obama's pledge to overhaul prison practices. Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi said this does not surprise him because “the Obama administration is many respects worse than the Bush administration.” “When Obama was running for ...
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