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Israelis Don’t Trust Hussein?! [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-07-09 06:00:15 by Skip MacLure
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Gee, ya think? I guess at this point I’m supposed to ask ‘and why don’t the Israelis trust Barack Hussein Obama?’… other than the fact that he is a liar, an anti-semite, and would destroy this little democratic nation of free people given half a chance. You see, the Israelis long ago figured out just exactly who and what Barack Obama is. The Israelis are quite good at things like this… it’s what keeps them alive. To the Israelis, Obama’s and the UN’s two-state solution is no solution at all. They know, just as you and I know, that it’s a huge straw-man that the islamo-fascists will never allow to occur. Obama favors it because it favors ...
10 Russian spy suspects plead guilty at N.Y. hearing
Post Date: 2010-07-08 17:27:26 by WhiteSands
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Ten Russian spy suspects pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in New York and were promptly ordered deported to Russia as part of a deal under which U.S. officials said Moscow would release four prisoners accused of spying for the West. Each of the 10 admitted acting secretly as an agent for Russia in violation of U.S. law requiring foreign agents to register with the government. U.S. District Judge Kimba M. Wood then sentenced each of them to time served since their June 27 arrests and ordered their deportation. Documents submitted in federal court in Manhattan said Russia has agreed to release four prisoners incarcerated there "for alleged contact with Western intelligence ...
Iran halts woman's death by stoning [ Already received 99 lashes ]
Post Date: 2010-07-08 16:27:21 by WhiteSands
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A 43-year-old Iranian woman will not be stoned to death after an international campaign launched by her children. It is unclear whether the authorities have lifted the death sentence for alleged adultery against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani or if she faces execution by another means. Mohammadi Ashtiani endured a sentence of 99 lashes after being convicted in May 2006 of conducting an "illicit relationship outside marriage". But her case was reopened when a court in Tabriz suspected her of murdering her husband. She was acquitted, but the adultery charge was reviewed and a death penalty handed down on the basis of "judge's knowledge" – a loophole that allows for ...
IMF presses US to cut debt
Post Date: 2010-07-08 15:50:18 by WhiteSands
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The International Monetary Fund on Thursday urged the United States to rein in its ballooning budget deficit without putting the "modest" economic recovery at risk. Amid jitters that high levels of unemployment may force a double dip recession, the IMF warned the slow US recovery would continue and that debt problems loomed. "The central challenge is to develop a credible fiscal strategy to ensure that public debt is put -- and is seen to be put -- on a sustainable path without putting the recovery in jeopardy," an IMF report said. The balance between spending to stimulate the economy and putting budgets in order has vexed countries around the world as the recovery ...
'Climategate' professor gets his job back
Post Date: 2010-07-07 13:58:04 by Badeye
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'Climategate' professor gets his job back Professor Phil Jones, the scientist at the centre of the 'climategate scandal', is to be reinstated in his role at the University of East Anglia after being cleared of dishonesty by a major review. By By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent Published: 1:02PM BST 07 Jul 2010 Phil Jones, the academic at the centre of the climate change data row Prof Jones lost his job as head of the Climatic Research Unit at the UEA after personal emails he sent appeared on the internet. The emails referred to a 'trick' used to interpret data and the death of a leading climate change sceptic as "cheering news." Sceptics ...
'Climategate' review clears scientists of dishonesty
Post Date: 2010-07-07 09:24:38 by go65
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London, England (CNN) -- An independent report released Wednesday into the leaked "Climategate" e- mails found no evidence to question the "rigor and honesty" of scientists involved. The scandal fueled skepticism about the case for global warming just weeks before the United Nations conference on climate change last December. The seven-month review, led by Muir Russell, found the scientists did not unduly influence reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). "We went through this very carefully and we concluded that these behaviors did not damage our judgment of the integrity, the honesty, the rigor with which they had operated as ...
Dan Senor Says It’s ‘Legitimate’ To Argue That The Iraq War Has Not Made The U.S. Safer
Post Date: 2010-07-06 12:50:33 by go65
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Prominent conservatives and Republicans in Congress have been attacking RNC chair Michael Steele and calling for his ouster after Steele’s recent comments that the war in Afghanistan cannot be won. Today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, conservative Pat Buchanan complained about the right’s reaction. “What bothers me is the effort here I think to force a position on the Republican Party before they’ve gone through their primary process,” Buchanan said, and addressed former Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman Dan Senor about the foolish right-wing charge to wage war in Iraq: BUCHANAN: What I’m saying is, don’t start purging a guy because he said ...
Stun gun maker seeks to quash report restricting Taser use in Canada
Post Date: 2010-07-06 08:17:53 by Craig_Portwood
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The law enforcement community maintains that their use is a non lethal tool, vital to preventing injury and death. Human rights groups claim that they are dangerous and potentially life threatening. The device is known as a “Taser.” Yesterday, Arizona based stun gun-maker Taser International Inc., filed a motion to quash a Canadian report which recommended that their use be restricted. Read more>>
Turkey threatens 'to sever ties' with Israel
Post Date: 2010-07-05 13:09:01 by mininggold
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Turkey threatens 'to sever ties' with Israel Turkey warned Israel Monday it will cut ties unless it gets an apology for a deadly raid on Gaza-bound aid ships, but the Jewish state said it will never say sorry for defending itself. Ankara had already closed its airspace to all Israeli military aircraft in reaction to the May 31 bloodshed on a Turkish ship in which nine Turks were killed, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told the daily Hurriyet. The Israelis had three options, Davutoglu said in remarks published Monday. "Either they apologise, or accept an international (inquiry) commission and its report, or relations will be broken," he said. Turkey has called for an ...
Doctor: 'Dying' Lockerbie bomber may live 10 years
Post Date: 2010-07-04 18:16:31 by WhiteSands
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LONDON — A doctor who said the man convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 had only three months to live now says the Libyan could survive another 10 years, London's Sunday Times reported. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was convicted of 270 counts of murder for being behind the 1988 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, was released on compassionate grounds in 2009, after doctors said he only had a few months to live. Specialist Karol Sikora told the newspaper it was "embarrassing" that al-Megrahi, who has prostate cancer and received a hero's welcome upon his return to Libya, had managed to outlive the prognosis. The report is sure to re-ignite accusations that ...
Man sues Vatican for alleged abuse cover-up
Post Date: 2010-07-03 20:06:48 by WhiteSands
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LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A man who claims he was abused by a priest in Southern California in the 1960s is suing the Catholic Salesian order, as well as the Vatican. The alleged victim filed a lawsuit at the /*Los Angeles County Superior Court*/ on Wednesday. The plaintiff alleges that the /*Salesian order*/ of the /*Roman Catholic church*/ and the /*Vatican* conspired to transfer retired Rev. /*Titian "Jim" Miani*/ to six locations on three continents to cover up his abuse. It's not the first time Miani has been accused of abusing children. In 2003, he was charged with molesting two young girls decades earlier. The lawsuit alleges that Miana abused the plaintiff while he ...
Honor Killings on the Rise [ 96 percent of honor killings in the last 20 years were Muslim-on-Muslim ]
Post Date: 2010-07-03 17:47:21 by WhiteSands
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As Kathryn noted, Afshan Azad, the lovely and graceful actress who appears in four of the Harry Potter movies, has, in real life, been threatened with death and allegedly attacked by her father and brother. Her sin? She is a British Muslim of Bangladeshi origin who stands accused of dating a Hindu man. Yes, this alone is a capital crime in Islam. My 2009 and 2010 studies in Middle East Quarterly have shown that “honor killings” are all too real and on the rise. Women have been honor-killed for refusing to veil themselves, marry their first cousins, or remain in dangerously abusive marriages, for wanting to choose their own husbands, and for behaving in “western” ways. ...
'Sadistic' Catholic priest jailed for abusing boys in Australia. Catholic priest has been jailed for almost 20 years for "sadistic" sex attacks on young boys that spanned more than 18 years.
Post Date: 2010-07-02 23:01:26 by WhiteSands
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John Sidney Denham, 67, was sentenced to 19 years and 10 months after pleading guilty to a range of charges, including multiple counts of indecent assault against boys aged five to 16. Denham was found guilty of abusing 39 boys at schools in Sydney and elsewhere in New South Wales between 1968 and 1986. "The indecent assaults involved multiple children, often significant planning, were frequently sadistic and overall persistent, objectively serious, criminal courses of conduct," Judge Syme said, according to Australian news agency AAP. "The offender's actions contributed to a culture of fear and depravity, especially at the school, which allowed these disturbing ...
Drug Gang Enforcer Admits Ordering U.S. Consulate Worker's Killing, Mexico Says
Post Date: 2010-07-02 22:54:32 by WhiteSands
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MEXICO CITY -- A drug-cartel enforcer told Mexican police that a rival gang infiltrated the biggest U.S. consulate along the border through a worker who helped get them U.S. visas, and that he ordered her killed for it. An American official rejected the claim Friday and said the motive for the slaying remains unknown. The employee, Lesley Enriquez, was among three people connected to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez who were killed March 13 in attacks that raised concerns that Americans were being caught up in the drug-related violence raging in that border city and across Mexico. Jesus Ernesto Chavez, whose arrest was announced Friday, confessed to ordering the killings, said Ramon ...
IDF Officer Suspected Of Seducing Young Girls
Post Date: 2010-07-02 21:01:44 by Brian S
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Police believe 25-year old Eyal Nahum contacted 4,000 girls, some under 14, for sexual purposes 07.01.10, 15:18 / Israel An IDF officer has been arrested on suspicion he attempted to seduce 4,000 underage girls, the Tel Aviv Magistrates' Court cleared for publication Thursday. The officer denies the allegations, and the court has remanded his arrest by seven days. Previous Case 1,000 girls will never feel safe / Amit Raicher Thousand girls abused by Israeli pedophile will grow up to be sad women Full Story Twenty-five year-old Eyal Nahum, from Holon, serves in a computer programming unit. Police say that over the past five years he has contacted thousands of girls, some of them ...
'Big Losses' If Russia Halts Iran's S-300s
Post Date: 2010-07-02 21:00:15 by Brian S
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MOSCOW, July 2 (UPI) -- Russia stands to lose billions of dollars in arms and aerospace deals with Tehran if the Kremlin sticks to its guns and refuses to deliver powerful S-300 air-defense missiles under an $800 million deal, the Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily has warned. The Islamic Republic will just turn to China for its weapons systems, thus depriving Moscow of a major source of revenue, the newspaper reported Wednesday. Russia announced it would freeze delivery of five mobile S-300OPMU batteries to Iran after the United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic on June 9 because of Tehran's refusal to abandon its nuclear program. These included harsher ...
Netanyahu Rules Out Apology To Turkey Over Deadly Raid
Post Date: 2010-07-02 20:59:28 by Brian S
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JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday praised secret talks with Ankara aimed at mending ties after a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship but ruled out any apology. On May 31, Israeli special forces stormed a flotilla of six ships carrying aid for blockaded Gaza, killing nine Turks on board one of the vessels and sparking international outrage and straining ties with one-time ally Ankara. "Israel cannot apologise because its soldiers had to defend themselves to avoid being lynched by a crowd," Netanyahu said in an interview with Channel 1 public television. "We regret the loss of life," Netanyahu said. The raid on the Mavi ...
US Supreme Court says Vatican can be sued over Irish priest
Post Date: 2010-07-02 18:16:30 by WhiteSands
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Court case against Irish priest could see Vatican take responsibility for all priests. A court case which initiated in 2002, John V. Doe v. Holy See, was initially seen by the Vatican to be a publicity stunt. The Vatican appealed the case but the Supreme Court has now ruled to give it the green light. This case could see the Vatican take legal responsibility for their abusive priests. In 2002 a Seattle man brought the case to court claiming that an Irish priest, Father Andrew Ronan repeatedly molested, him in the late 1960s. According to information from that original lawsuit Ronan began abusing children in the mid-1950s in County Armagh, Ireland. He was transferred to Chicago where, he ...
Australia priest jailed for child sex attacks
Post Date: 2010-07-02 17:23:06 by WhiteSands
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John Sidney Denham will serve at least 13 years in prison A Catholic priest in Australia has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in jail for sex attacks on 25 children over nearly two decades. John Sidney Denham, 67, pleaded guilty to a range of charges relating to attacks on boys at schools in New South Wales between 1968 and 1986. The judge said his actions "contributed to a culture of fear and depravity". Denham apologised to the victims and their families, saying he saw himself as a "mere scumbag paedophile". He was sentenced to 19 years and 10 months in jail for crimes including sexual acts and indecent assaults against boys aged between five and 16 years old. He ...
Shootout between drug, migrant trafficking gangs near US border leaves 21 dead [ 12 Miles from Arizona Border ]
Post Date: 2010-07-01 23:46:52 by WhiteSands
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Twenty-one people are dead in Mexico following a massive gun battle between rival drug and migrant-trafficking gangs near the U.S. border. Prosecutors in northern Sonora state say the gun battle occurred in a sparsely populated area about 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the Arizona border. The state Attorney General's Office said in a statement that nine people were captured by police at the scene of Thursday's shootings, six of whom had been wounded in the confrontation. The area is a prime corridor for immigrant and drug smuggling.
Ryanair to sell Ł5 tickets for standing-room only flights
Post Date: 2010-07-01 16:23:15 by Skip Intro
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Ryanair to sell £5 tickets for standing-room only flights Michael O'Leary, the airline's chief executive, will set out proposals today that include charging customers to use the loo. A standing area with "vertical seats" will be introduced at the back of its fleet of 250 planes. He said that charging customers £1 to make use of facilities would encourage travellers on one hour flights to use lavatories at the airport instead of on the aircraft. The Irishman said he intended to introduce coin-operated loos and added: "The other change we've been looking at is taking out the last 10 rows of seats so we will have 15 rows of seats and the equivalent ...
'Make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom': Al Qaeda launches its first online magazine in English
Post Date: 2010-07-01 16:11:50 by Badeye
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'Make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom': Al Qaeda launches its first online magazine in English By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 2:38 PM on 1st July 2010 Radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki is at the heart of the Al Qaeda propaganda effort Al Qaeda has launched its first online propaganda magazine in English. Called 'Inspire', the magazine has features including one on 'How to make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom', It could help the terror group recruit inside the US and Europe. It is being run by Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen, which has been linked to the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt of a US-bound airliner. The launch suggests that, as Al ...
Court fines Greenpeace nuclear activists
Post Date: 2010-07-01 15:41:38 by Badeye
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Court fines Greenpeace nuclear activists Published: 1 Jul 10 17:23 CET Online: www.thelocal.se/27556/20100701/ A Swedish court on Thursday fined 29 Greenpeace activists who broke into a nuclear power plant earlier this month. The activists -- 13 Germans, eight Poles, four Danes, a Frenchman, a Finn, a Swede and a Briton -- were given fines ranging from €190 to 1,600 ($230-2,000) for trespassing, according to a copy of the judgment by the court in Uppsala obtained by AFP. In a statement, Greenpeace welcomed the fact that activists were found guilty of the lesser charge of trespassing, and not aggravated trespassing as sought by the prosecutor. A Polish activist was found guilty of ...
Prosecutors: Suspect In Russian Spy Ring Confessed
Post Date: 2010-07-01 15:24:07 by Brian S
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NEW YORK (AP) -- One of the suspects in an alleged spy ring has confessed to federal agents that he worked for Russia's intelligence service, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The revelation came on a day when several defendants in the case were making court appearances, even as authorities scoured a Mediterranean island for an alleged co-conspirator who disappeared after he was granted bail. Authorities said in a court filing that Juan Lazaro made a lengthy statement after his June 27 arrest in which he discussed some details of the operation, which prosecutors said involved Russian moles living under assumed identities in American suburbs. Among other things, he admitted that ...
Iran Has Supplied Syria With A Sophisticated Radar System That Could Provide An Early Warning Of An Israeli Attack On Its Nuclear Facilities
Post Date: 2010-07-01 14:21:57 by Brian S
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(JTA) -- Iran has supplied Syria with a sophisticated radar system that could provide an early warning of an Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities, The Wall Street Journal reported. Thursday's report, which cites Israeli and U.S. officials, says the new radar also could benefit the Iran-backed Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon and is believed to receive arms from Syria. If Syria shares its radar information with Hezbollah, it could increase the accuracy of the terrorist organization's own missiles, according to the report. The radar system reportedly was transferred in mid-2009 and disclosed in recent months by two Israeli officials, two U.S. officials and a Western ...
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