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China urges closer military ties with Australia
Post Date: 2010-08-11 23:47:19 by A K A Stone
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In this Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010 photo, Chinese soldiers take part in the Vanguard 2010 live-fire air defense exercise in central China’s Henan Province. China’s military launched major air defense exercises Tuesday, highlighting rising capabilities that are seen as tipping the balance of power in east Asia. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **
Associated Press | Aug 9, 2010
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
BEIJING – A leading Chinese general urged closer ties with Australia’s military on Monday, amid a continuing freeze on Beijing’s contacts with the Pentagon.
Gen. Liao Xilong pledged Monday to “beef up military exchanges” with Australia, during a meeting in Beijing with Australian Air ...
Russia Deploys Missiles to Protect Georgia Rebels
Post Date: 2010-08-11 23:12:49 by A K A Stone
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it had deployed high-precision air defense missiles in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, sending a defiant signal to Tbilisi and the West two years after a war with Georgia. The S-300 missile system bolstered Moscow's military presence in the disputed territory and drew an angry response from Georgia. General Alexander Zelin, the commander of Russia's air force, said that air defenses of other types had been deployed in Georgia's other Russian-backed rebel region, South Ossetia. His comments, two years after Russia routed Georgian forces in a five-day war that strained Moscow's ties with the United States and Europe, ...
Missing French Chef's Body Found In Freezer
Post Date: 2010-08-11 22:59:43 by A K A Stone
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The body of an acclaimed French chef has been found hidden in a freezer - two years after he went missing. Detectives discovered the frozen corpse of Jean-Francois Poinard after his girlfriend Guylene Collober, 51, told her daughter "something unfortunate" had happened to him. The 71-year-old's body is believed to have been secreted in a freezer at their home in Lyon for up to two years. He was found in the foetal position and covered with plastic bags. Ms Collober is said to have made the revelation to her daughter during a night out. Her daughter told police, who found Mr Poinard's body at the flat. Ms Collober is said to have collapsed in tears when officers ...
Ex-priest in East Bay linked to molestations in Ireland
Post Date: 2010-08-11 19:01:59 by WhiteSands
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OAKLAND -- A former Catholic priest living in Alameda is facing extradition to Ireland, where he faces 10 separate cases of sexual abuse dating to the early 1970s. Patrick McCabe, who was a priest in the North Bay and Sacramento during the 1980s after being accused of sexual abuse in Dublin, Ireland, between 1973-81, is being held at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. No one in the Bay Area has accused McCabe of misconduct, Alameda investigators said. McCabe, 74, surrendered to U.S. Marshals Service last month and is being denied bail. He faces a hearing on Friday. David Cohen, an attorney who is challenging the extradition orders from Ireland, said McCabe suffers from numerous serious health ...
Iran Ready To Fill Lebanon Military Aid Gap From US
Post Date: 2010-08-11 17:57:06 by Brian S
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August 12, 2010 JERUSALEM: Iran has promised Lebanese officials that it will make up any shortfall left by a US decision to suspend $US100 million ($110 million) worth of military aid to Lebanon. Direct Iranian military aid to Lebanon would exacerbate tensions along the Israeli-Lebanese border that erupted last week when a Lebanese Army sniper killed an Israeli officer involved in a brush-clearing operation. Israeli troops responded, killing two Lebanese soldiers and one Lebanese journalist. The clash, the worst since Israel's 2006 war against Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite movement that controls southern Lebanon, has revived fears that Hezbollah has infiltrated the Lebanese ...
Israel Bulldozes Muslim Graves In Jerusalem
Post Date: 2010-08-11 13:33:41 by Brian S
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Israeli bulldozers backed by police destroyed dozens of gravestones in a Muslim cemetery in central Jerusalem on Tuesday, according to an AFP photographer. The Islamic Movement accused the municipality of destroying more than 200 Muslim graves that had been recently renovated in a centuries-old cemetery in mostly Jewish west Jerusalem. "Last night at around 12:30 am (2130 GMT) occupation forces entered the cemetery and destroyed around 200 graves," said Mahmud Abu Atta of the Al-Aqsa Foundation linked to the group, whose members are Arab citizens of Israel. He said the bulldozers returned later in the day to destroy dozens more after a Jerusalem court rejected a petition to ...
Obama vs. Putin...dare to compare!
Post Date: 2010-08-11 00:40:38 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Let's compare and contrast the leader of the United States with the Leader of Russia shall we? Hey, a picture speaks a thousand words so let's have at it! Let's start with President Obama: And Vladimir Putin:
2 couples die in honour killing cases [ young Muslim couple was shot dead by the girl’s brother ]
Post Date: 2010-08-10 22:13:19 by WhiteSands
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Honour killings claimed the lives of two sets of lovers in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. A young Muslim couple was shot dead by the girl’s brother in Aligarh while another couple committed suicide by consuming poison in Muzaffarnagar district. According to police reports, a young couple had eloped from Delhighat locality in Aligarh last week after their families refused to accept the alliance. However, they returned home on Saturday evening when both the families convinced them that they would get them married as per tradition. But the girl’s brother, Mohammad, who had been opposed to the alliance, shot the couple dead.
Iran-Saudi rivalry deepens
Post Date: 2010-08-10 21:24:12 by A K A Stone
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For decades, the Persian Gulf region - subsumed under a latent Sunni-Shi'ite divide - was animated by a drama of Iraq-Iran rivalry; each power balanced the other. The elimination of Saddam Hussein, by the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq, introduced a new chapter in the regional affairs - Saudi Arabia and Iran as the twin pillars of the regional power-configuration. Historically, despite numerous efforts by each party to improve bilateral relations and deepen cooperation, Iran-Saudi relations have been fraught with intermittent rhetorical wars and grim strategic competition. In the past decade, Iraq, Lebanon, occupied Palestine, Afghanistan and Yemen have served as a chessboard for ...
Children 'at risk from pop charts porn' from the likes of Lady Gaga says Kylie Minogue's former producer Mike Stock
Post Date: 2010-08-10 21:07:01 by A K A Stone
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The man who helped launch the career of Kylie Minogue yesterday condemned modern pop culture for 'sexualising' youngsters.
Mike Stock, one third of the legendary pop factory Stock, Aitken and Waterman, said: 'The music industry has gone too far. It's not about me being old fashioned. It's about keeping values that are important in the modern world.
'These days you can't watch modern stars - like Britney Spears or Lady Gaga - with a two-year-old. Lady Gaga
'Not suitable for children': Lady Gaga in concert in St. Louis, Missouri, last month
'Ninety-nine per cent of the charts is R 'n' B and 99 per cent of that is soft pornography.'
He continued: 'Kids are being forced to grow ...
Youngest Guantanamo inmate, Canadian Omar Khadr, tried
Post Date: 2010-08-10 21:03:19 by A K A Stone
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A former child combatant has gone on trial at Guantanamo Bay, the first detainee to face military justice under President Barack Obama. Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, now 23, is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier during a gun battle in Afghanistan in 2002, when he was 15. He alleges that he was tortured into confessing to the murder. A UN envoy, Radhika Coomaraswamy, said the trial would set a dangerous precedent for child soldiers worldwide. Continue reading the main story Related stories * Q&A: Closing Guantanamo * Why Guantanamo date was missed However, the judge said the prosecution must show that Mr Khadr had had intent to commit a crime, and he told jurors ...
Ex-Pakistan Spy Chief: Afghanistan War Neocon-Created ‘Lost Cause’; Negotiate With Mullah Omar And Move Out
Post Date: 2010-08-10 19:49:41 by Brian S
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- The attacks of September 11 were a pretext to a war already under consideration, Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul said. “I think some of the neocons, who were very close to President [George W.] Bush, they wanted that he could embark on a universal adventure of Pax Americana, and they thought that the world was lying prostrate in front of them,” he said. The 2001 terrorist attacks helped win the public support for the neocon plans, he said. - From CNN: The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan is a “lost cause,” said a former Pakistani intelligence chief, and the United States needs to negotiate peace with Taliban leader Mullah Omar. “You have to talk to him, and I’m sure it will ...
Main Street's Boycott Of Capital Markets Succeeding: Barclays First Casualty, To Fire Hundreds Due To Plunge In Market Activity
Post Date: 2010-08-10 19:49:20 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Main Street's Boycott Of Capital Markets Succeeding: Barclays First Casualty, To Fire Hundreds Due To Plunge In Market Activity Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/10/2010 17:36 -0500 For the longest time it was consensus thought that only Wall Street could fuck Main Street. The ride is now turning. After what the FT reports was a 16% decline in fixed income, currencies and commodities trading revenues for Q2, coupled with advisory revenues down 17%, the bank is now "planning to cut up to several hundred employees following a sharp fall in market activity in the second quarter. Sources close to the bank say that the job losses, which could be announced as early as Wednesday, will ...
Hizbullah Calls on Lebanon to Shun US Aid and Turn to Iran
Post Date: 2010-08-10 19:34:41 by Brian S
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A senior Hizbullah terrorist organization member and member of the Lebanese parliament called on the Beirut government to forget about obtaining ”conditional” American military aid instead turn to Iran, Syria, Russia and China. Nawwaf Moussawi, a senior Hizbullah leader and member of the Lebanese parliament, suggested the LAF look to Syria, Iran and countries like Russia and China for weapons and training. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to make his first official visit to Lebanon, at the end of the Ramadan month of daily fasting, his foreign minister announced Sunday. The U.S. Congress has blocked the previously authorized $100 million in military aid for the ...
Iran's Revolutionary Guard 'Digging Mass Graves For US Soldiers'
Post Date: 2010-08-10 19:26:42 by Brian S
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The scene in the south of Iran where hundreds of mass graves have been dug General Hossein Moghadam, the Guard's former deputy chief, was speaking after film footage showed strings of freshly dug graves in the south of the country. They were close to the site of war graves for the dead of the long war between Iran and Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which devastated the region in the 1980s. "The mass graves that used to be for burying Saddam's soldiers have now been prepared again for US soldiers, and this is the reason for digging this big number of graves," Gen Moghadam told the Associated Press, which obtained the footage. The warning is unlikely to be more than ...
Burning Russia Battles To Defend Nuclear Sites
Post Date: 2010-08-10 19:24:20 by Brian S
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Russia fought a deadly battle Tuesday to prevent wildfires from engulfing key nuclear sites as alarm mounted over the impact on health of a toxic smoke cloud that has shrouded Moscow. Two soldiers were killed by blazing trees as they strove to put out a fire dangerously close to Russia's main nuclear research centre, while workers were also mobilised to fight blazes near a nuclear reprocessing plant. After almost two weeks of fires that have claimed over 50 lives and even part destroyed a military storage site, the authorities said they were making progress in fighting fires that still covered 174,035 hectares of land "A positive dynamic in liquidating the wildfires continues to ...
U.S. extradition sought for notorious Irish pedophile priest
Post Date: 2010-08-09 22:43:01 by WhiteSands
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An extradition proceeding has begun to bring a notorious pedophile priest back from the U.S. to Ireland where he faces ten separate cases. Patrick McCabe (74), now lives in California, but it charged with committing the offences while a priest in the Dublin archdiocese between 1973 and 1981. Six men who were children at the time have claimed they were abused by McCabe when he was a priest. All have described in graphic detail being abused in the parish rectory and in an inner-city Dublin school. His defence attorney, David Cohen, has said that McCabe is in very poor health and is a ‘frail,weak old man’ who should not be extradited He will appeal the refusal to grant him bail ...
Eyes On The Skies Over Iran's Reactor
Post Date: 2010-08-09 20:49:08 by Brian S
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MIAMI - Iran's light water nuclear power plant at Bushehr is preparing to go "live" - again. Iranian and Russian nuclear scientists and officials have announced Bushehr's reactor will soon be receiving its first shipment of nuclear fuel 36 years after construction first began on the project. This claim may be quietly fueling speculation that a military strike on Iran by Israel - or the United States - may be imminent. The Persian-language news site Mardom Salari reported on August 3 that members of the Iranian armed forces had been transferred to Bushehr to evaluate the security of the air space above the site. Three drones were said to have been shot down over Bushehr ...
U.S. And EU Fail To Isolate Iran
Post Date: 2010-08-09 15:53:59 by Brian S
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Reporting from Washington — Efforts by the United States and its European allies to build a united front to halt Iran's nuclear program are facing increasingly bold resistance from China, Russia, India and Turkey, which are rushing to boost their economies by seizing investment opportunities in defiance of sanctions imposed by the West. The Obama administration and the European Union opted to try to toughen United Nations sanctions against Iran with their own unilateral restrictions on foreign companies that do business with Tehran's energy sector, hoping that squeezing the country's most lucrative industry can force the Islamist government to bend on its nuclear program. ...
Moscow Deaths Double Amid Smog To 700 People A Day
Post Date: 2010-08-09 12:18:44 by Brian S
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV (AP) – 3 hours ago MOSCOW — Deaths in Moscow have doubled to an average of 700 people a day as the Russian capital is engulfed by poisonous smog from wildfires and a sweltering heat wave, a top health official said Monday. Moscow health chief Andrei Seltsovky blamed weeks of unprecedented heat and suffocating smog for the rise in mortality compared to the same time last year, Russian news agencies reported. He said city morgues were nearly overflowing, filled with 1,300 bodies, close to their capacity. Acrid smog blanketed Moscow for a six straight day Monday, with concentrations of carbon monoxide and other poisonous substances two to three times ...
Giving Bush Credit for Iraq Too Much for Obama to Swallow
Post Date: 2010-08-09 10:12:59 by no gnu taxes
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Christiane Amanpour on Sunday asked a rather surprising question of her "This Week" panel concerning President Obama’s speech earlier in the week about the troop draw down in Iraq: Do you think everybody is taking a lot of credit but not giving credit where credit is due? Obviously, "everybody" in this instance meant the current White House resident who chose not to give credit to former President George W. Bush for the success in Iraq or to even mention "the surge" in his address. After former Bush speechwriter now Washington Post contributor Michael Gerson said, "I didn’t find the speech to be a particularly generous speech…he’s ...
Commodity spike queers the pitch for Bernanke's QE2
Post Date: 2010-08-08 20:11:12 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Commodity spike queers the pitch for Bernanke's QE2 Don't be fooled: a food and oil price spike is not and cannot be inflationary in those advanced industrial economies where the credit system remains broken, the broad money supply is contracting, and fiscal policy is tightening by design or default. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Published: 5:56PM BST 08 Aug 2010 It is deflationary, acting as a transfer tax to petro-powers and the agro-bloc. It saps demand from the rest of the economy. If recovery is already losing steam in the US, Japan, Italy, and France as the OECD's leading indicators suggest - or stalling altogether as some fear - the Eurasian wheat crisis will merely ...
Wiesenthal Center Accused Of Hypocrisy; Opposes NYC Mosque, Supports Museum On Palestinian Graveyard
Post Date: 2010-08-08 17:13:25 by Brian S
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a human rights organization devoted to fighting anti-Semitism, has been accused of hypocrisy for joining the ADL in opposing the Ground Zero mosque, while funding the construction of a "Museum of Tolerance" on top of Palestinian grave sites. Rabbi Meyer May, the center's executive director, told Crain's New York that building a mosque near the site of the 9/11 attacks was "insensitive" to the people still dealing with the wounds of that tragedy. “Religious freedom does not mean being insensitive...or an idiot,” May said. “Religion is supposed to be beautiful ... Why create pain in the name of religion?” Critics ...
Spain admits that the green energy as sold to Obama is a disaster (Solar = FUBAR)
Post Date: 2010-08-08 17:12:47 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Spain admits that the green energy as sold to Obama is a disaster The internal report of the Spanish administration admits that the price of electricity has gone up, as well as the debt, due to the extra costs of solar and wind energy. Even the government numbers indicate that each green job created costs more than 2.2 traditional jobs, as was shown in the report of the Juan de Mariana Institute. (The below is the English translation of an article published in Spain's La Gaceta newspaper.) May 21, 2010 by Cristina Blas in La Gaceta The Spanish government leaks a report that admits the ominous economic consequences of betting in favor of renewable energies. The president of the ...
While Obama preaches sacrifice, his family frolics in Spain
Post Date: 2010-08-07 23:29:22 by WhiteSands
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AS THE US economy endures high unemployment and a jittery stock market, President Barack Obama has preached sacrifice and fiscal discipline. But the pictures coming out of a sun-splashed Spanish resort may be sending a different message. First lady Michelle Obama is in the midst of a five-day trip to a luxury resort along with a handful of friends, her younger daughter, aides and Secret Service. Her office said the Obamas would pay for personal expenses, but would not reveal the taxpayer cost for the government employees. Elected officials - Democrats and Republicans - were reluctant to weigh in, not wanting to appear critical of the President's wife. But the trip provided fodder for ...
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