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Israel Braces Itself In Face Of Imminent Threat Of Hostilities.
Post Date: 2010-08-23 06:56:58 by Skip MacLure
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The chatter among the bad guys, Syria, Hizballah in Lebanon, Hamas and the Palestinians and the Islamic Jihad, is all about the high state of preparedness for war. Israel moved quickly to solve command issues, with Ehud Barak’s nomination of OC Southern Command Major General Yoav Galant to serve as the country’s Chief of Staff in February, when Lt.General Gaby Ashkenazi steps down. A wise and timely move by the Israeli government. Iran has its surrogates threatening war, as it continues its insane race for more and more weapons and its relentless pursuit of nuclear arms. Iran may be goading its puppets into attacking Israel to bleed the Israelis as much as they can, before ...
Four US Soldiers Killed In Day Of Afghan Violence
Post Date: 2010-08-22 13:56:11 by Brian S
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Four US soldiers were killed Sunday while fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, NATO said, as the insurgents appeared to step up their campaign against officials and election candidates. The four American troopers died in three separate incidents, in eastern and southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. ISAF spokesman US Air Force Master Sergeant Jason Haag confirmed all four were Americans. The deaths bring to 451 the total number of international soldiers to die in the Afghan war so far this year, according to an AFP tally based on that kept by the icasualties.org website. The total in 2009 was 520. Two of the soldiers were killed in the same ...
Iran Inaugurates Nation's First Domestically Built Unmanned Bomber
Post Date: 2010-08-22 13:47:12 by Brian S
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ranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday inaugurated the country's first domestically built unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an "ambassador of death" to Iran's enemies. The 4-meter-long drone aircraft can carry up to four cruise missiles and will have a range of 620 miles (1,000 kilometers), according to a state TV report — not far enough to reach archenemy Israel. "The jet, as well as being an ambassador of death for the enemies of humanity, has a main message of peace and friendship," said Ahmadinejad at the inauguration ceremony, which fell on the country's national day for its defense industries. The goal of the aircraft, named Karrar or ...
Barack Obama vacations in the shadow of a nuclear Iran: Tehran’s progress exposes the massive failure of Obama’s foreign policy
Post Date: 2010-08-21 20:08:20 by WhiteSands
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While President Obama enjoys his sixth vacation of the year, at the exclusive playground of America’s liberal elites at Martha’s Vineyard, the United States’ most dangerous state-based adversary on the world stage is celebrating the opening of its first nuclear reactor, the Russian-built power plant at Bushehr. Although purportedly for civilian purposes, there can be no doubt that this is a huge leap forward for Iran’s nuclear weapons programme, with US officials acknowledging Iran is just “12 months from a nuclear weapon.” Earlier this week, Tehran announced it was building 10 uranium enrichment plants in protected mountain strongholds, and on Friday the ...
Iran Hopes Russia's Next Step Be Delivery Of S-300 Missiles System: MP
Post Date: 2010-08-21 20:02:19 by Brian S
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BUSHEHR, Iran, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Iranian lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi hailed Russia's move on Bushehr nuclear plant fuelling and expressed hope Russia's next step would be the delivery of S-300 missile system to Iran, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported on Saturday. Iran struck a deal with Russia in 2007 to buy the S-300 systems, but Russia delayed the delivery of the anti-aircraft missiles. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in the June meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy that his country will freeze the missile sales to Iran in the light of the UN sanctions, according to the Elysee Palace. "The move (loading fuel into Bushehr nuclear plant by ...
Warrant For The Arrest Of Wikileaks Founder Assange Dropped
Post Date: 2010-08-21 19:51:48 by Brian S
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Hours after its issuance, the Swedish Prosecution Authority withdrew a warrant for the arrest of whistleblower activist and former hacker Julian Assange, who had been accused of raping a woman and molesting another, according to a report from Sweden's The Local."I do not consider there to be any reason to suspect that he has committed rape," chief prosecutor Eva Finné said in a prepared statement published online.The Local added: "A source close to the case told the newspaper that two women in their twenties went to the police in Stockholm on Friday to speak about their recent encounters with Assange."His arrest warrant was issued late Friday night, as ...
Wikileaks founder accused of rape
Post Date: 2010-08-21 09:21:52 by Fred Mertz
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Swedish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on suspicion of molestation and rape. The warrant was issued late yesterday, said a spokeswoman at Sweden's prosecutors' office in Stockholm. She said Assange should contact the Swedish police for questioning about the accusations of molestation and rape in two separate cases "so that he can be confronted with the suspicions". Assange has denied the charges, which were first reported by the Swedish tabloid Expressen, on Wikileaks' Twitter account. He implied that they were linked to the release by the whistleblowers' website of a huge cache of US military records about the ...
Iran Joins Nuclear Power Club as Russia Starts Reactor
Post Date: 2010-08-21 02:48:49 by Brian S
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Iran, under United Nations sanctions for its nuclear program, said it ended a 36-year quest to join the club of atomic-powered nations when Russia’s Rosatom Corp. switched on a reactor along the Persian Gulf coast. The start of the 1,000-megawatt power reactor near the southern city of Bushehr, makes Iran the first country in the Middle East with a nuclear-energy facility, freeing more of its fossil fuels for export. Iran also becomes only the second Muslim state after Pakistan to have nuclear power, with ambitions to build enough plants to generate 20,000 megawatts within 20 years. Iran began loading the Bushehr plant with nuclear fuel, the state-run news channel Press TV said, ...
Russia To Load Nuclear Fuel Into Iran's Bushehr NPP
Post Date: 2010-08-20 20:19:57 by Brian S
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Russia is completing final preparations to load low-enriched uranium fuel into Iran's first civilian reactor at the Bushehr NPP later on Saturday. If the operation goes smoothly, Bushehr will be qualified as an operational nuclear power plant. It is expected to start producing electricity late this year or early next. A Russian delegation headed by Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko will attend the launch ceremony. The Iranian delegation will be led by Ali Akbar Salehi, vice president and Director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI). Western powers suspect Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons under the guise of its nuclear program, a charge Tehran strongly denies, saying the ...
Iran Test Fires Surface-To-Surface Missile
Post Date: 2010-08-20 11:11:25 by Brian S
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TEHRAN — Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi announced on Friday that Iran has test fired a surface-to-surface missile, Qiam, a day before it is due to launch its Russian-built first nuclear power plant. State television showed images of the sand coloured Qiam (Rising) blasting into the air from a desert terrain, amid chants of "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest). The words "Ya Mahdi" were written on the side of the missile, referring to Imam Mahdi, one of the 12 imams of Shiite Islam, who disappeared as a boy and whom the faithful believe will return one day to bring redemption to mankind. Vahidi, whose speech during Friday prayers in Tehran was broadcast on television, ...
U.S. Assures Israel That Iran Threat Is Not Imminent
Post Date: 2010-08-20 01:27:10 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, citing evidence of continued troubles inside Iran’s nuclear program, has persuaded Israel that it would take roughly a year — and perhaps longer — for Iran to complete what one senior official called a “dash” for a nuclear weapon, according to American officials. Administration officials said they believe the assessment has dimmed the prospect that Israel would pre-emptively strike against the country’s nuclear facilities within the next year, as Israeli officials have suggested in thinly veiled threats. For years, Israeli and American officials have debated whether Iran is on an inexorable drive toward a nuclear ...
Have your Roma back
Post Date: 2010-08-19 21:21:15 by A K A Stone
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THE French government has begun expelling hundreds of Roma it says have settled in the country illegally. Most of them are Romanian nationals. In Bucharest, many see the move as unfair and opportunistic—a PR stunt designed to raise the ailing popularity of Nicolas Sarkozy. “I don't think Sarkozy is a racist, but he is using the Roma to raise his popularity,” says Florin Cioaba, Romania's self-styled “King of all Gypsies.” Announced last month by the French president and his ministers, the decision to dismantle Gypsy camps will see some 700 people with Romanian passports sent back to the country by the end of August. A first batch of 79 travellers is due ...
China and India Contest of the century
Post Date: 2010-08-19 21:17:25 by A K A Stone
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A HUNDRED years ago it was perhaps already possible to discern the rising powers whose interaction and competition would shape the 20th century. The sun that shone on the British empire had passed midday. Vigorous new forces were flexing their muscles on the global stage, notably America, Japan and Germany. Their emergence brought undreamed-of prosperity; but also carnage on a scale hitherto unimaginable. Now digest the main historical event of this week: China has officially become the world’s second-biggest economy, overtaking Japan. In the West this has prompted concerns about China overtaking the United States sooner than previously thought. But stand back a little farther, apply ...
Saudi judge considers paralysis punishment [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-08-19 20:55:37 by A K A Stone
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CAIRO – A Saudi judge has asked several hospitals in the country whether they could damage a man's spinal cord as punishment after he was convicted of attacking another man with a cleaver and paralyzing him, the brother of the victim said Thursday. Abdul-Aziz al-Mutairi, 22, was left paralyzed and subsequently lost a foot after a fight more than two years ago. He asked a judge in northwestern Tabuk province to impose an equivalent punishment on his attacker under Islamic law, his brother Khaled al-Mutairi told The Associated Press by telephone from there. He said one of the hospitals, located in Tabuk, responded that it is possible to damage the spinal cord, but it added that the ...
Israeli Police Arrest Rabbi Over Inciting Violence Against Non-Jews
Post Date: 2010-08-19 19:32:55 by Brian S
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RAMALLAH: The Israeli police on Thursday arrested Rabbi Yosef Elitzur from the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar on suspicion of incitement for violence against non-Jews, possession of racist text and possession of material that incites violence. The police said that Elitzur was questioned by investigators from the international crimes unit. It added that Elitzur was scheduled to be brought before the Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court for a remand hearing later on Thursday. According to the police, the arrest comes as part of the investigation into the book “Torat Hamelech” (“The King’s Torah”), co-written by Elitzur and Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira of Yitzhar and was ...
Russia Opening Iran Nuclear Plant Advances Goal to Play Power-Broker Role
Post Date: 2010-08-19 19:29:30 by Brian S
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Russia will switch on Iran’s first nuclear power plant tomorrow as the government seeks to bolster its global influence by acting as a power broker between the U.S. and its European allies and the Persian Gulf nation. Rosatom Corp., the state-run Russian company building the plant at Bushehr in southern Iran, plans to open it after repeated delays over 15 years of construction. Iran, under United Nations sanctions because of concern it is concealing a nuclear weapons program, will become the first Middle East country to produce atomic energy when Bushehr goes online. Russia, which joined U.S.-led efforts to tighten the UN embargo, is using the opening to soothe Iranian anger while ...
Global Conspiracy Theory Fascinates Fidel Castro
Post Date: 2010-08-19 19:12:53 by Brian S
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Bilderberg Club theory propounded by far-left, far-rightFidel Castro is showcasing a theory long popular both among the far left and far right: that the shadowy Bilderberg Group has become a kind of global government, controlling not only international politics and economics, but even culture.The 84-year-old former Cuban president published an article Wednesday that used three of the only eight pages in the Communist Party newspaper Granma to quote — largely verbatim — from a 2006 book by Lithuanian-born writer Daniel Estulin.Estulin's work, "The Secrets of the Bilderberg Club," argues that the international group largely runs the world. It has held a secretive ...
Why Stimulus Fail- Japan
Post Date: 2010-08-19 11:52:40 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Lot's of talk on LF about needing more stimulus. Many Obama supporters keep saying,"Well, what do you propose?". Sorry, if stimuli worked Japan would be the richest nation on earth. Consider the following: http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20090107152856.aspx Repeating Japan’s Mistakes The media should be showing how government stimulus doesn’t work, as Japan found out in the 1990s. At the end of the 1980s, the Japanese economy experienced an asset bubble, which resulted in the crashing of their economy. To remedy the situation, the Japanese government employed a Keynesian strategy to stimulate their economy. “Between 1992 and 1995, ...
Israel Does Not Need A Command Controversy.
Post Date: 2010-08-19 08:41:12 by Skip MacLure
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As a matter of fact, it’s about the last thing the country or the IDF needs at this juncture. The Galant document scandal seems to have centered around a fraudulent document scheme, to influence Defense Minister Ehud Barak in his choice of a new chief of staff to succeed Lt General Gaby Ashkenazi, whose term is ending. Apparently, this document, which has been called a fake, was sent to the Chief of Staff and other high-ranking Israeli officers. Police said they believe that they know who authored the fake document. Police were asking General Ashkenazi why he had been in possession of the document for some weeks before revealing it to police. The most obvious ramification is that ...
"Putin Is Not God" Says Russian Orthodox Church
Post Date: 2010-08-18 19:27:30 by Brian S
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Russia’s politicians may look like they’re playing God, but religious leaders are guiding their flocks away from playing the blame game – particularly against the government. And for once, the country’s four major faiths all appear to be singing from the same hymn sheet. The Russian Orthodox Church, the country’s most powerful religious institution, has so far collected over 12 million roubles ($400,000) for victims of the wildfires, while Patriarch Kirill has urged Russians to stop blaming the authorities and help each other. “Of course, humanity’s sins are the reason for all misfortunes on Earth,” Kirill said in a statement. “But called upon by ...
Greece Enters Death Spiral
Post Date: 2010-08-18 18:57:33 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Greece Enters Death Spiral Spiegel Online International reports Tensions Rise in Greece as Austerity Measures Backfire The austerity measures that were supposed to fix Greece's problems are dragging down the country's economy. Stores are closing, tax revenues are falling and unemployment has hit an unbelievable 70 percent in some places. Frustrated workers are threatening to strike back. This dire prognosis comes even despite Athens' massive efforts to sort out the country's finances. The government's draconian austerity measures have managed to reduce the country's budget deficit by an almost unbelievable 39.7 percent, after previous governments had squandered ...
Goodbye Iraq: Last US Combat Brigade Heads Home
Post Date: 2010-08-18 18:48:22 by Brian S
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KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait -- As their convoy reached the barbed wire at the border crossing out of Iraq on Wednesday, the soldiers whooped and cheered. Then they scrambled out of their stifling hot armored vehicles, unfurled an American flag and posed for group photos. For these troops of the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, it was a moment of relief fraught with symbolism. Seven years and five months after the U.S.-led invasion, the last American combat brigade was leaving Iraq, well ahead of President Barack Obama's Aug. 31 deadline for ending U.S. combat operations there. --- EDITOR'S NOTE: The 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division was officially designated the ...
U.S. Support For Israel Is Decreasing, New Poll Shows
Post Date: 2010-08-18 17:56:55 by Brian S
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merican support for Israel is waning, a poll presented to senior Israeli officials in Jerusalem last week revealed. The survey was carried out by pollster and strategist Stanley Greenberg and sponsored by the American Jewish organization the Israel Project, which organizes and executes pro-Israel public relations campaigns with a focus on North America. Greenberg, along with Israel Project heads, presented the poll's findings to senior Israeli officials, including President Shimon Peres, Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor, as well as officials from the Prime Minister's office. One of the questions that the poll presented was "Does the U.S. need to support Israel?" In ...
IDF Soldiers Suspected Of Theft From Gaza Flotilla Ship
Post Date: 2010-08-18 17:47:16 by Brian S
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At least four soldiers being detained on suspicion of stealing and selling laptops belonging to activists aboard the Mavi Marmara ship, Israeli media report. By Haaretz Service Military Police arrested an Israel Defense Forces officer suspected of stealing laptop computers from activists aboard the Gaza-bound aid ship raided by Israeli commandos in May and selling them to other officers. The officer allegedly sold the computers to a friend, who in turn sold them to friends of his. Three officers who are suspected of having bought the computers have also been detained for questioning. The officer, who holds the rank of first lieutenant, allegedly stole between four and six computers from ...
The Right's Latest Weapon: 'Zionist Editing' On Wikipedia
Post Date: 2010-08-18 11:21:23 by Brian S
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For years now, Wikipedia has been a fierce battleground between the Israeli right and left. One key battle was over the entry for Bil'in and whether the weekly struggle at that village near the security fence should be described as violent. Another battle was over the description of the Ariel University Center. Was it "the largest public college in Israel"? Or should an institution in Ariel not be considered as being in Israel? So a compromise was reached: "the largest Israeli public college." Now the Yesha Council of settlements and another right-wing group, Israel Sheli, are embarking on a Wikipedia battle: Zionist editing on the Web-based encyclopedia. The first ...
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