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Iran Official: We Have Obtained The S-300 Missile System
Post Date: 2010-08-04 15:44:28 by Brian S
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A semiofficial Iranian news agency says Iran has obtained four S-300 surface-to-air missiles despite Russia's refusal to deliver them. A Russian-made S-300 missile Photo by: Kremlin The Fars news agency said Wednesday that Iran has obtained two missiles from Belarus and two others from another unspecified source. Russia signed a contract in 2007 to sell the missiles to Iran but said in June that new UN Security Council sanctions against Tehran prevent delivery. The sale would have substantially boosted the country's defense capacities, raising Israeli fears it would tip the military balance in the Middle East.In June, a senior Iranian official said that that if ...
Iran Claims To Have S-300 Anti-Aircraft Missiles
Post Date: 2010-08-04 12:15:41 by Brian S
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran has obtained four S-300 surface-to-air missile systems despite Russia's refusal to deliver them to Tehran under a valid contract, a semiofficial Iranian news agency claimed Wednesday. The Fars news agency, which has ties to the country's most powerful military force, the Revolutionary Guard, said Iran received two S-300s from Belarus and two others from another unspecified source. Fars didn't elaborate, and there was no official confirmation of the report. Russia signed a 2007 contract to sell the S-300s, but so far has not delivered. The sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles would significantly boost Iran's ability to defend against air strikes ...
Iran Says Explosion Near President Just Fireworks
Post Date: 2010-08-04 12:13:54 by Brian S
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's official news agency said Wednesday that an explosion near the president's convoy was just an excited fan setting off fireworks, denying earlier reports of an assassination attempt. A fan set off a firecracker similar to those used during sports matches to express his excitement at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the western Iranian town of Hamedan, reported the IRNA news agency. The explosion near the president's convoy had set off a flurry of media reports, including one that it was a handmade grenade. The conservative Iranian website, khabaronline.ir, said a grenade exploded as the president's convoy headed from the ...
Who did naive and trusting 19 year old forum owner give it up to???!!!!
Post Date: 2010-08-04 11:57:40 by Biff Tannen
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#3. To: calcon, ALL (#0) Good grief. She's 19 already! Give the kid a break. Doesn't ANYONE have compassion any more? Empathy? I remember when I was 19, and boy was I naive. When you don't live in a city full of slime lords, you tend to be trusting and naive at that age. Stop judging the poor gal. She was trying to do the right thing for her baby, and the scum sucker was playing her for more money and more facetime on the tabloids. How was SHE to know? I'm more inclined to kick the guy, Levi, in the balls for being a total bastard to her and his child. That poor kid is going to grow up fatherless, or at least knowing his father was a SOB who used him. Goldi-Lox posted ...
World 'Losing Against Taliban,' Pakistan's President Says
Post Date: 2010-08-03 17:03:57 by Brian S
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Paris, France (CNN) -- The international community is "losing the war against the Taliban," Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said Tuesday. "Above all, this is because we lost the battle of hearts and minds," Zardari told the French newspaper Le Monde on a visit to Paris. "The success of the insurgents is to learn how to wait. They have time on their side. It's our whole approach which is wrong," the paper quoted him as saying. "The people do not associate the intervention of the coalition with a brighter future." Zardari and his entourage were on a plane from Paris to London, England, and not immediately available to confirm the quotes, a ...
Scandals have scared off new recruits, Germany's top Catholic says
Post Date: 2010-08-03 16:40:35 by WhiteSands
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Freiburg, Germany - A string of sex abuse scandals in the German Catholic church has led to a dramatic fall in the number of young men wanting to become priests, Germany's top Catholic bishop said Sunday. Speaking to the German Press Agency dpa, Archbishop of Freiburg Robert Zollitsch, who is the Chairman of the German Episcopal Conference and thus spokesman for the church, said that the church was now suffering from a serious lack of manpower. "We are living through a great trauma, indeed the deepest crisis of the Catholic church in Germany since 1945," Zollitsch said. Sexual abuse scandals have rocked the church in Germany since January, when dozens of cases emerged ...
US Lawmaker Calls For Sanctions On China, Russia
Post Date: 2010-08-03 12:43:56 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — The United States should immediately impose sanctions on Russia and China under a US law that punishes major investments in Iran's energy sector, a senior US lawmaker said Monday. "It's time to implement our sanctions laws and demonstrate to Russia and China that there are consequences for abetting Tehran and flouting US sanctions," Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said in a statement. Ros-Lehtinen, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said firms run by the Russian and Chinese governments had invested "huge sums" in Iran's energy sector, "effectively bankrolling" Tehran's alleged nuclear weapons ...
‘Low-level Bush Propagandist’ Calls For Wikileaks Founder To Be Kidnapped
Post Date: 2010-08-03 12:15:45 by Brian S
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Should the founder of one of the world's most important Web sites be spirited away from his home country by the U.S. military? That's what one so-called "low-level Bush propagandist" advocated on behalf of in Monday's Washington Post.Marc Thiessen, a former Bush speechwriter, claimed in a Post op-ed that because Wikileaks has published classified information, they should be considered in violation of the espionage act and taken down using "military assets," even if that means kidnapping founder Julian Assange from an undisclosed location within the European Union -- which would be a violation of international and domestic laws.He writes:Assange is a non-U.S. ...
Demographics, Destiny and Asset Markets, Will it be Deflation or Inflation?
Post Date: 2010-08-03 11:32:29 by Capitalist Eric
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Demographics, Destiny and Asset Markets The evolving financial crisis in the West and its long-term consequences has exposed deep-seated structural flaws in our economies, and in the global economic system. These span our susceptibility to deflation, the loss of traditional economic growth drivers, the integrity of public finance, the regulation of the banking system, weaknesses in labour markets, and the lack of discipline that obliges creditor countries, such as China, Japan and Germany to share the with a less visible and slow moving phenomenon that has a direct bearing on many of the structural problems we face, namely the onset of rapid aging. Although demographic projections of ...
The closing of the Christian womb
Post Date: 2010-08-02 23:13:45 by A K A Stone
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A century ago, Christians dominated the intellectual and commercial life of the Levant, comprising more than one-fifth of the 13 million people of Turkey, the region's ruling power, and most of the population of Lebanon. Ancient communities flourished in what is now Iraq and Syria. But starting with the Armenian genocide in 1914 and continuing through the massacre and expulsion of Anatolian Greeks in 1922-1923, the Turks killed three to four million Christians in Turkey and the Ottoman provinces. Thus began a century of Muslim violence that nearly has eradicated Christian communities in the cradle of their religion. It may seem odd to blame the Jews for the misery of Middle East ...
Rare Earth Elements: The World Is Rapidly Running Out And China Has Most Of The Remaining Supply
Post Date: 2010-08-02 23:01:46 by A K A Stone
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Most people have no idea what rare earth elements are, but a wide array of the technologies that we use every single day are dependent on them. Without rare earth elements, we would have no hybrid car batteries, flat screen televisions, cell phones or iPods. Without rare earth elements, the entire "green economy" would not be able to function, because almost all emerging green technologies use them. Not only that, but rare earth elements are used by the U.S. military in radar systems, missile-guidance systems, satellites and aircraft electronics. Without rare earth elements, the U.S. military (and militaries all over the globe) would not be able to function. There are 17 key rare ...
USA funded Osama Bin Laden in 1989 to destabalise Pakistan
Post Date: 2010-08-02 22:57:40 by A K A Stone
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What a find this is! Pakistan’s President clearly says George Bush funded CIA Operative Osama Bin Laden to destabilise Pakistan. Originally uploaded in January 2010.
Israel Prosperity Seen Unsustainable as Haredim Refusal to Work Takes Toll
Post Date: 2010-08-02 17:52:06 by Brian S
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Moshe Linker spends his days studying Jewish religious texts in Jerusalem, supporting his three children with a seminary stipend, state child payments and his wife’s teacher salary. Linker is one of the almost 60 percent of Israel’s ultra- Orthodox men who don’t have jobs. The second fastest-growing population group in the country after the Bedouin, they have prompted Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer and Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz to assert that the haredim, as they are called in Hebrew, may impede Israel’s prosperity. The ultra-Orthodox community benefits from hundreds of millions of shekels in public aid. The low rate of employment is putting pressure on ...
Loopholes Let Iran Off the Hook
Post Date: 2010-08-02 17:11:49 by Brian S
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LONDON — Geopolitical psychoanalysis can be a lazy and futile staple of international affairs. But the judgment of Robert M. Gates, the U.S. defense secretary, that Russia’s relationship with Iran is “schizophrenic” is hard to fault these days. Mr. Gates was talking to a congressional panel in June, just after Russia and China had signed on to new U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran. A “schizophrenic Russian approach,” he explained, grew out of the conflict between Russia’s commercial desires and its recognition of Iran as the greatest danger to Russian national security — a threat assessment that Mr. Gates said was made to him directly by ...
Holocaust Museum To Romania: Scrap 'Racist' Coin
Post Date: 2010-08-02 15:51:08 by Brian S
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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Romania's central bank has issued a special coin commemorating a prime minister and religious leader who stripped Jews of their citizenship before World War II. The move prompted protest Monday from Romanian Jews as well as a director at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Radu Ioanid, who runs the museum's international archives, said he was "shocked" by the bank's decision to mint the coin depicting late Patriarch Miron Cristea, who led the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1925 to 1939 and was prime minister from 1938-1939. The patriarch was responsible for revising the citizenship law, stripping about 225,000 Jews - or 37 percent of the ...
Shimon Peres Is Right – Britain Is Anti-Semitic.
Post Date: 2010-08-02 13:03:11 by Skip MacLure
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The London Daily Telegraph got its panties in a huge wad over comments made by Israeli President Shimon Peres, that England was deeply pro-Arab and anti-Israeli. I guess the truth must sting. Naturally, some of England’s ‘senior’ MPs, probably serving the same function there as our ever-bloviating John ‘Gunboats’ Kerry, were irate. Too bad they were not half as irate about surrendering a goodly part of their sovereignty to the Islamo-fascists, who are undermining British society on every level. I don’t see the Israelis with one legal system for their Jewish citizens and Sharia courts for Muslims in their midst, nor would they tolerate it for a second… ...
Britain's Military Braced For Sharp Spending Cuts
Post Date: 2010-08-01 12:25:14 by Brian S
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LONDON (AP) -- Tens of thousands of troops, a gleaming new aircraft carrier, one or more of the nuclear-armed submarines that guarantees Britain's place at the world's top table: Something has to give as the government looks to make sharp cuts to its defense budget as part of deficit-shredding austerity measures. After costly wars, and a financial crisis that has left the government's coffers bare, military officials and ministers will spend the summer grappling with a pressing problem - can Britain still afford to be a military power? Britain's defense ministry is in the midst of the first major review of its capabilities and priorities since 1998 - a process aimed at ...
Is Your Detergent Stalking You?
Post Date: 2010-07-31 12:36:58 by A K A Stone
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Unilever's Omo detergent is adding an unusual ingredient to its two-pound detergent box in Brazil: a GPS device that allows its promotions agency Bullet to track shoppers and follow them to their front doors. Starting next week, consumers who buy one of the GPS-implanted detergent boxes will be surprised at home, given a pocket video camera as a prize and invited to bring their families to enjoy a day of Unilever-sponsored outdoor fun. The promotion, called Try Something New With Omo, is in keeping with the brand's international "Dirt is Good" positioning that encourages parents to let their kids have a good time even if they get dirty. Omo ...
China Plans Major Iranian Investment
Post Date: 2010-07-31 12:01:00 by Brian S
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Iran's main economic partner China has invested around 40 billion dollars in the Islamic republic's oil and gas sector, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday. Deputy Oil Minister Hossein Noqrehkar Shirazi also said that Tehran's oil exports to China fell by 30 percent in the first six months of 2010 compared with the corresponding period last year. "The volume (of Chinese investment) in upstream projects is 29 billion dollars," Noqrehkar Shirazi told Mehr news agency, adding that Beijing had signed contracts worth another 10 billion dollars in petrochemicals, refineries and oil and gas pipeline projects. He said China has also put forward proposals to ...
WikiLeaks Posts Mysterious ‘Insurance’ File
Post Date: 2010-07-30 22:36:16 by A K A Stone
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In the wake of strong U.S. government statements condemning WikiLeaks’ recent publishing of 77,000 Afghan War documents, the secret-spilling site has posted a mysterious encrypted file labeled “insurance.” The huge file, posted on the Afghan War page at the WikiLeaks site, is 1.4 GB and is encrypted with AES256. The file’s size dwarfs the size of all the other files on the page combined. The file has also been posted on a torrent download site as well. WikiLeaks, on Sunday, posted several files containing the 77,000 Afghan war documents in a single “dump” file and in several other files containing versions of the documents in various searchable formats. ...
Christian Groups Call For End To Israeli 'Impunity'
Post Date: 2010-07-30 15:38:32 by Brian S
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PARIS - Five French Christian organisations on Wednesday called on the French government to end what they termed the "impunity accorded to the state of Israel" over its treatment of the Palestinians. In an open letter the five groups, including Secours Catholique, called on Prime Minister Francois Fillon to "exert pressure... so that Israel respects the basic rights of the Palestinians." The groups urged the "French government to act, to put an end to the impunity accorded to the state of Israel as regards the violation of international law," the letter said. The other groups that signed up to the letter were Cimade, an ecumenical organisation; Acat-France, ...
Despite War Cries From Neocons United States, Iran to Restart Talks
Post Date: 2010-07-30 15:36:24 by Brian S
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Despite the war cries from the neocons and the far right, Washington and Tehran will soon be back at the negotiating table. The hard work by Turkey and Brazil was disparaged by many in the United States, but it seems to have paid off, notes Robert Dreyfuss. Talks on Iran’s nuclear program will resume in September, and despite the war bluster from neocons and the far right, the Obama administration seems prepared to try once again. From discussions with US officials, here’s what I’ve gleaned about the administration’s policy on Iran. First, there is no appetite whatsoever, and no serious consideration, being given to a military attack on Iran. Not even Dennis Ross, the ...
Egyptian Journalist Describes 'Absolute Prosperity' in Gaza
Post Date: 2010-07-30 15:08:18 by WhiteSands
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With Hamas telling tales of deprivation and suffering in Gaza, Egyptian journalist Ashraf Abu al-Houl has added his report to others who were surprised to discover a “prosperous” Gaza in which prices are low and luxury businesses are booming. Al-Houl's story of his trip to Gaza and his realization that “in actual terms, Gaza is not under siege” was written up in the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). "A sense of absolute prosperity prevails, as manifested by the grand resorts along and near Gaza's coast. Further, the site of the merchandise and luxuries filling the Gaza shops amazed me,” he ...
Obama has Royally Fucked Up in Afghanistan [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-07-30 13:34:10 by no gnu taxes
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Who has "ownership" of the war in Afghanistan? Is it President Bush, who got rid of the taliban government, closed al qaeda's training camps, and kept things that way with a troop total that never got about the high 20,000's? Or is it Barack Obama, who declared Afghanistan a "war of necessity" (i.e. he agreed it should be fought), has quadrupled the number of our troops there, and is now overseeing dramatically more combat fatalities in that hopeless anal cavity of the world than we ever had under Bush? Here is the first part of an Associated Press article which gives us the latest situation there. Warning: It is ugly: KABUL, Afghanistan 33; Three U.S. ...
What haapens if we leave Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-07-30 11:24:17 by no gnu taxes
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Our cover image this week is powerful, shocking and disturbing. It is a portrait of Aisha, a shy 18-year-old Afghan woman who was sentenced by a Taliban commander to have her nose and ears cut off for fleeing her abusive in-laws. Aisha posed for the picture and says she wants the world to see the effect a Taliban resurgence would have on the women of Afghanistan, many of whom have flourished in the past few years.
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