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First Fuel To Be Loaded Into Iranian Nuclear Plant Later This Month
Post Date: 2010-10-05 19:39:07 by Brian S
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Iran will begin loading fuel into the Bushehr nuclear power station later in October, Russian contractor Atomstroiexport said on Tuesday. "The entire load of fuel has been delivered to the rector repository," a spokeswoman told RIA Novosti. "The loading of the fuel into the reactor is scheduled for October 2010," she said. Iran launched the Russian-built Bushehr power station in late August. Russia will operate the station, supplying the fuel and taking away the waste, but has agreed to delegate full control to Iran in two or three years. The decision has been slated by the West, which suspects Iran of attempting to build nuclear weapons. Tehran says its nuclear ...
Queer drunken Muslim royal Saudi inbreed beats butt boy to death
Post Date: 2010-10-05 13:27:32 by Happy Quanzaa
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Saudi prince strangled servant at London hotel: court A gay Saudi prince beat and strangled his male servant to death in a frenzied sexual assault at their luxury London hotel suite, a court heard on Tuesday. Saud Bin Abdulaziz Bin Nasir al Saud, 34, who is a grandson of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, killed Bandar Abdullah Abdulaziz on February 15 after abusing him for weeks, the court heard. The 32-year-old victim was found with severe injuries including bite marks on his cheeks in a bloodstained bed in the suite at the Landmark Hotel, which he was sharing with the prince, prosecutors said. Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw told the jury at the Old Bailey in London, England's Central ...
IMF admits that the West is stuck in near depression
Post Date: 2010-10-05 10:51:44 by Capitalist Eric
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If you strip away the political correctness, Chapter Three of the IMF's World Economic Outlook more or less condemns Southern Europe to death by slow suffocation and leaves little doubt that fiscal tightening will trap North Europe, Britain and America in slump for a long time. Spain, trapped in EMU at overvalued exchange rates, had a general strike last week. The IMF report – "Will It Hurt? Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Consolidation" – implicitly argues that austerity will do more damage than so far admitted. Normally, tightening of 1pc of GDP in one country leads to a 0.5pc loss of growth after two years. It is another story when half the globe is in trouble ...
Super-rich investors buy gold by ton
Post Date: 2010-10-04 23:12:58 by A K A Stone
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Reuters) - The world's wealthiest people have responded to economic worries by buying gold by the bar -- and sometimes by the ton -- and by moving assets out of the financial system, bankers catering to the very rich said on Monday.
Fears of a double-dip downturn have boosted the appetite for physical bullion as well as for mining company shares and exchange-traded funds, UBS executive Josef Stadler told the Reuters Global Private Banking Summit.
"They don't only buy ETFs or futures; they buy physical gold," said Stadler, who runs the Swiss bank's services for clients with assets of at least $50 million to invest.
UBS is recommending top-tier clients hold 7-10 percent of their ...
The Guatemala Syphilis Experiment: An Interview with Susan Reverby [ Democrats have been spreading STD's for decades ]
Post Date: 2010-10-04 22:15:17 by WhiteSands
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Susan M. Reverby is the Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. Her article “‘Normal Exposure’ and Inoculation Syphilis: A PHS ‘Tuskegee’ Doctor in Guatemala, 1946-48,” which is to appear in the January 2011 issue of the Journal of Policy History, detailed the history of an experiment conducted by U.S. government researchers that deliberately infected Guatemalan prisoners and mental patients with syphilis. The revelation sparked an apology from Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to the people of Guatemala for the ...
Russian Expedition Aims To Claim Arctic
Post Date: 2010-10-04 18:16:54 by Brian S
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MURMANSK, Russia, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- An icebreaker is heading for the North Pole to stake Russia's claim to the arctic, a polar explorer said Sunday. Explorer Artur Chilingarov told RIA-Novosti President Dmitry Medvedev rescued the expedition with essential funding after scientists appealed to him when its fate was in doubt. The nuclear-powered Rossiya set out from Murmansk Saturday on a 25-day journey to the pole. The icebreaker will deliver the SP-38 polar station with 15 explorers to a drifting ice floe for a yearlong stay. The ship's lease costs 2.4 million rubles a day. The expedition is meant to provide "scientific substantiation" for Russia's claim to arctic ...
NATO Chief Apologizes, Pakistani Taliban Vow Revenge
Post Date: 2010-10-04 18:07:42 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - NATO's chief expressed regret on Monday for the deaths of Pakistani soldiers last week and said he hoped Pakistan's border would reopen for NATO supplies to Afghanistan as soon as possible. Angered by repeated attacks by NATO helicopters on militant targets within its borders, Pakistan blocked one of the supply routes for NATO troops in Afghanistan after a strike killed three Pakistani soldiers in the western Kurram region. Analysts and Western officials said Pakistan's closure of the border for a few days would not seriously impact the war effort in Afghanistan, but it would create political tension that Pakistan could exploit. "I expressed my regret for the ...
2 Israeli Soldiers Convicted of Using Palestinian boy as Human Shield
Post Date: 2010-10-03 17:41:50 by Brian S
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An Israeli military court has convicted two soldiers of using a Palestinian boy as a human shield during the 2008-2009 offensive on Gaza. Sunday's convictions are among the most serious connected to soldiers' war conduct in Gaza. The ruling said the two soldiers inappropriately ordered a 9-year-old boy to open bags they thought might contain explosive material. The soldiers will be sentenced at a later date. Israel says it launched the Gaza offensive in late December to stop cross-border rocket attacks by Palestinian militants. Three weeks of fighting killed at least 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis. Also Sunday, Israeli border officials say police have shot and killed a ...
All Is Well. Iran Has Caught Nuclear Spies.
Post Date: 2010-10-03 04:07:37 by Skip MacLure
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So says the most prestigious Iranian Intelligence apparatus. So, move along, there’s nothing more to see here… all is well. I’ve always admired the Israeli ability to dissemble, when it comes to secrets. More often than not, the results are all that could be asked for. Israel very seldom tips its hand openly concerning anything, much less national security matters. I had been aware that the Israeli Defense Forces, the IDF, had been developing some sort of military cyber-warfare capability in conjunction with the US for some time. It makes perfect sense, the two most sophisticated cyber brain trusts in the world team up to make Iran sit up and think about a few things. ...
Roger Waters called Anti-Semite by Abe Foxman
Post Date: 2010-10-02 20:22:23 by sneakypete
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Ben Hider, Getty Images Accusations of anti-Semitism have been levelled at ex-Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The League's director Abe Foxman believes the use of Jewish signs as part of an animated video backdrop during Waters' new tour 'The Wall Live' pander to "age-old anti-Semitic stereotypes." The offending video, which accompanies 'Goodbye Blue Sky,' shows symbols including dollar signs, Stars of David, crosses and Islam's crescent moon, alongside Shell and Mercedes logos, being dropped like bombs from an airplane. According to the Guardian, Foxman said, "Of course, Waters has every right to express his ...
Mexico
Post Date: 2010-10-02 17:05:35 by Skip Intro
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Things change. They change. I arrived in Mexico some seven years ago amid dire warnings from all and sundry that I would instantly die of foul disease, tramplling by burros, and splashing sanguinary crime. All of this I regarded as nonsense, because it was. The State Department issued travel warnings and similar alarums, but State would regard Massachusetts as hazardous. There was little to fear. Expats traveled at will and walked the streets without concern. Things change. While crime is hardly epidemic where we live, and in most places mostly involves narcos killing narcos, and takes place mostly away from the agringada regions rife with Americans, these days there is more of it. Before, ...
Husband and wife shot by Mexican pirates on Falcon Lake (TX)
Post Date: 2010-10-02 14:57:19 by Hondo68
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'I couldn't pull him up': Wife's agony as she abandons her husband after he is shot by Mexican pirates while jet-skiing A young wife has told of her agony after she was forced to abandon her dying husband and flee for her life when the couple were attacked by Mexican pirates.Tiffany Hartley, 29, said she and husband David, 30, were jet-skiing on a lake that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border when they were ambushed on Thursday.Her husband was shot in the head, she said. When she leapt into the water to save him, the pirates began firing at her.She then made the heart-wrenching decision to abandon her husband and flee to safety.Heartbreak: Tiffany and David Hartley in an ...
One third of 'extinct' animals turn up again
Post Date: 2010-10-01 12:35:27 by jwpegler
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Conservationists are overestimating the number of species that have been driven to extinction, scientists have said. A study has found that a third of all mammal species declared extinct in the past few centuries have turned up alive and well. Some of the more reclusive creatures managed to hide from sight for 80 years only to reappear within four years of being officially named extinct in the wild. The shy okapi – which resembles a cross between a zebra and a giraffe – was first discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1901. After increasingly rarer sightings, it vanished from the wildlife radar for decades from 1959, prompting fears that it had died out. But five ...
HB 1388 PASSED by X order. Hammas refugees to the US
Post Date: 2010-09-30 15:00:40 by sneakypete
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You just spent $20,000,000 to move members/supporters of Hamas, a terrorist organization, to the United States; housing, food, the whole enchilada. HB 1388 PASSED Whether you are an Obama fan, or not, EVERYONE IN THE U.S. needs to know.... Something happened... H.R. 1388 was passed, behind our backs. You may want to read about it... It wasn't mentioned on the news... just went by on the ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN screen. Obama funds $20M in tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas Refugees to the USA. This is the news that didn't make the headlines. By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in "migration ...
Media Climate Change Bias; Only Melting Ice Makes News
Post Date: 2010-09-29 08:34:54 by no gnu taxes
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Figure 1 shows the extent of Antarctic sea ice for 2010 up to September 10. Ice extent has been about 1 million square kilometers above the 1979 – 2000 average. Notice the 2009 ice amount was above average as well. This matches reports of record cold temperatures around the Southern Hemisphere. On July 27, 2010 we learned from Peru, “Temperatures plummeted to below -20°C prompting the government to declare a state of emergency for nearly half of the country Friday.”- From Argentina, “Local newspapers reported that the temperature plunged to -1.5°C in Buenos Aires, on Friday—making it the coolest day in a decade for the capital. Even the beaches saw white ...
Rand Paul kisses neocons' ring, but some neocons remain wary
Post Date: 2010-09-28 13:28:58 by A K A Stone
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One faction of the GOP that has remained particularly wary of Rand Paul's Senate candidacy are neoconservatives who are still angry about his father Ron Paul's criticism of Israel and his disdain for Bush-era military adventurism. In the past, Rand has echoed his father's views, opposing the Iraq War, and from the neocon point of view, the Paul family's isolationism is as whacked out as anything hatched by the anti-war left. Now, it turns out, Rand is looking to mend fences. He made a quiet pilgrimage and met privately with some of Washington's most influential neocons, as well as the pro-Israel lobby, delivering them a not-too-subtle message: Never mind my ...
13 dead after Navy rescue in Gulf of Aden Skiff carrying Egyptians, Somalis capsizes as U.S. lends assistance Advertisement | ad info
Post Date: 2010-09-27 13:59:30 by sneakypete
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At least 13 people are dead and another eight are missing after a U.S. Navy rescue mission in the Gulf of Aden went awry on Monday, NBC News reported. The USS Winston Churchill was coming to the aid of about 85 passengers — 75 Ethiopians and 10 Somalis — who were adrift in a skiff in the busy shipping lanes between the coasts of Yemen and Somalia. As the crew of the Churchill attempted to provide the stranded passengers with food and water, the passengers all rushed to one side of the vessel, which quickly became flooded and capsized, throwing all 85 passengers into the water, NBC News reported. Sailors from the Churchill rescued 61 passengers, but 13 drowned and eight were ...
Israeli settlers rev bulldozers as settlement freeze nears end (return to Zionist activity)
Post Date: 2010-09-26 16:14:43 by Hondo68
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Just hours before the expiration of Israel's 10-month settlement freeze, Jewish settlers vow to renew building with symbolic celebrations in the West Bank. Jewish settlers participate in a cornerstone laying ceremony for a daycare center at the West Bank Jewish settlement of Kiryat Netafim, Sunday. Israel's prime minister on Sunday called on West Bank settlers to 'show restraint' after the end of a government-ordered construction slowdown.(Ariel Schalit/AP) Tel Aviv — With Israel and Palestinian negotiators deadlocked over settlement expansion just hours before the expiration of a 10-month Israeli settlement freeze, Jewish settlers vowed to renew building during ...
Neo-Nazi Couple Find Out They're Jewish
Post Date: 2010-09-25 12:51:18 by sneakypete
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Two Polish neo-Nazis who were childhood sweethearts and later became skinheads have discovered what for them is a shocking family secret: They're actually Jewish. Pawel and Ola, identified only by their first names, are the subject of a CNN documentary about Poles rediscovering their Jewish roots generations after their ancestors hid their religious identities to escape persecution during World War II. A few years ago, Ola found out from Warsaw's Jewish Historical Institute that both she and her husband are technically Jews. "It was unbelievable -- it turned out that we had Jewish roots. It was a shock," she said. At the time, she and Pawel were active in Warsaw's ...
Army Reveals Afghan Biometric ID Plan; Millions Scanned, Carded by May
Post Date: 2010-09-24 11:50:42 by A K A Stone
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Danger Room What's Next in National Security Previous post Army Reveals Afghan Biometric ID Plan; Millions Scanned, Carded by May
* By Noah Shachtman Email Author * September 24, 2010 | * 12:03 am | * Categories: Af/Pak *
Scanning prisoners’ irises is just Step 1. In Afghanistan, local and NATO forces are amassing biometric dossiers on hundreds of thousands of cops, crooks, soldiers, insurgents and ordinary citizens. And now, with NATO’s backing, the Kabul government is putting together a plan to issue biometrically backed identification cards to 1.65 million Afghans by next May.
The idea is to hinder militant movement around the country, and to keep Taliban infiltrators out of ...
Lindsey Graham says U.S. must prepare to attack Iran
Post Date: 2010-09-22 12:21:21 by Skip Intro
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Monday that the United States must be prepared to use military force to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon — and added that the last-resort step should be taken with the goal of overthrowing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Graham, a military lawyer and a senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, became the first senator to support direct U.S. military intervention in Iran, saying it should not involve ground troops but be launched by U.S. warplanes and ships. "If you use military force against Iran, you've opened up Pandora's box," Graham told the American Enterprise ...
Karl Rove Goes Postal What fun!
Post Date: 2010-09-19 19:58:14 by jwpegler
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Is the Republican establishment losing it? Is the party leadership capable of uniting a governing coalition as Richard Nixon did before Watergate and Ronald Reagan resurrected in the 1980s? Observing the hysteria and nastiness of Karl Rove and the GOP establishment at the stunning triumph of Tea Party Princess Christine O'Donnell, the answer is no. This party is not ready to rule. Consider. In its grand strategy to recapture a Senate that George W. Bush and Rove lost in 2006, the GOP Senate leadership endorsed all its own caucus members for re-election, if they chose to run, then picked out all its favorite candidates for the open and Democratic seats. Conservatives and tea party ...
Netherlands Bars Israeli Mayors Of West Bank Settlements From Taking Part In Dutch Study Trip
Post Date: 2010-09-19 18:29:00 by Brian S
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Netherlands bars Israeli mayors of West Bank settlements from taking part in Dutch study trip By The Associated Press (CP) – 2 hours ago JERUSALEM — An Israeli mayors group said Sunday that the Dutch government refused to let heads of West Bank settlements take part in a delegation of mayors in the Netherlands. The Dutch Foreign Ministry said the government was not involved, and the decision to bar the settler mayors seemed to have been made solely by a group called the Association of Dutch Cities. Nonetheless, the barring of the settler mayors is part of a widening circle of protests against Israel over its settlement policy. The Union of Local Authorities in Israel said 40 ...
Car Bombs Tear Through Baghdad, Fallujah; 36 Dead
Post Date: 2010-09-19 16:40:42 by Brian S
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BAGHDAD (AP) -- Three car bombs tore through Baghdad and the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah Sunday, killing at least 36 people. The blasts in the capital were so powerful they sheared the sides off buildings and left streets choked with chunks of rubble. It was the worst violence since the U.S. military dropped to 50,000 troops in Iraq and formally declared an end to combat operations on Sept. 1, saying Iraqi forces were up to the task of protecting their own country. Insurgents have hammered Iraqi forces and government buildings, capitalizing on gaps in security as the U.S. scales back its military mission and Iraqi politicians fail to overcome divisions and form a new ...
US Soldiers Accused Of Killing Afghans 'For Sport'
Post Date: 2010-09-19 16:27:34 by Brian S
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A group of US soldiers is facing accusations of randomly targeting and killing Afghan civilians for sport, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Citing army legal documents and interviews with people involved in the case, the newspaper said the case involved rogue members of a platoon from the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. The game started last winter, when one Afghan man approached the soldiers in the village of La Mohammed Kalay, the report said. As the man neared, one soldier created a ruse that they were under attack, tossing a fragmentary grenade on the ground, the paper noted. Then others opened fire, killing the man. According to The Post, the unprovoked ...
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