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'Secret' law lets police arrest for failing to show ID near summit [ Canada, Liberal Canada ]
Post Date: 2010-06-25 19:31:39 by WhiteSands
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TORONTO — The McGuinty Liberal government secretly passed a law giving police sweeping new powers for the duration of the G8 and G20 summits. The law gives police the power to jail anyone who refuses to furnish identification and submit to a search while within five metres of a designated security zone in downtown Toronto. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association said it was “extremely concerned” about the measures which, according to the group, violate constitutional safeguards. In a statement, the group said it intends to challenge the law. On Thursday, a 32-year-old man was arrested in downtown Toronto for failing to show police ID. Until his arrest, the new law was not ...
Geithner says US can 'no longer drive global growth'
Post Date: 2010-06-25 10:38:52 by Badeye
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Geithner says US can 'no longer drive global growth' Page last updated at 01:41 GMT, Friday, 25 June 2010 02:41 UK US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has told the BBC that the world "cannot depend as much on the US as it did in the past". He said that other major economies would have to grow more for the global economy to prosper. He also played down any differences in policy between the US and Europe regarding deficit reduction. Mr Geithner was speaking in Washington ahead of G8 and G20 meetings this weekend in Toronto. He said all members of the group were "focused on the challenge of [building] growth and confidence", and would be working to this end ...
Chávez Loses in Colombia
Post Date: 2010-06-25 09:48:09 by Badeye
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Chávez Loses in Colombia The election of Juan Manuel Santos was a rebuke to the Venezuelan dictator. BY Jaime Daremblum June 25, 2010 12:00 AM ShareThis Chalk up another defeat for Hugo Chávez. Last weekend, Colombian voters delivered a landslide victory to conservative presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos, who clobbered former Bogotá mayor Antanas Mockus by nearly 42 percentage points. Always eager to meddle in foreign elections, Chávez had strongly criticized Santos during the campaign, calling him a “threat to the region” and warning that “he could cause a war in this part of the world, upon instructions from the Yankees.” On April ...
Senior Catholic cardinal investigated for graft [Vatican cardinal is under investigation for corruption ]
Post Date: 2010-06-25 01:24:05 by WhiteSands
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A senior Vatican cardinal is under investigation for corruption, dragging the Catholic Church into a public works scandal that has sent shockwaves through the Italian Government.
Child sex abuse raid on Belgian Catholic Church - Belgian police have raided the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church
Post Date: 2010-06-24 23:18:19 by WhiteSands
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Belgian police have raided the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church and the home of the recently retired Cardinal of Belgium as part of an investigation into the sexual abuse of children by clergy. On Thursday morning, 30 police officers swooped on the palace of the archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, sealing off buildings and removing documents. The latest blow to the scandal-hit Roman Catholic Church disrupted a meeting of bishops taking place in the presence of the Vatican's ambassador to Belgium, in Mechelen, just north of Brussels. A second raid took place at the nearby home of Cardinal Godfried Danneels, 77, where police officers seized a personal computer belonging to the ...
Iranian President : 'Israel Too Weak To Attack Iran'
Post Date: 2010-06-24 20:27:39 by Brian S
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Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), The Iranian president has warned the Zionist regime of Israel against any potential military action against Iran, saying Tel Aviv is not capable of doing so. "The Zionist regime is too weak to launch aggression against Iran. They long to deal a blow to Iran, but wouldn't dare even think about it", Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted by IRNA as saying in an interview with Turkey's ATV network. "They all know that playing with Iran is like playing with a lion", added President Ahmadinejad. Elsewhere in his remarks, the president underlined the Israeli attack on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla was the most despicable act the Zionist ...
Group In Massachusetts Is Campaigning For Localities To Pass Nonbinding Resolutions Questioning Israel's Democracy
Post Date: 2010-06-24 15:18:14 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A group in Massachusetts is campaigning for localities to pass nonbinding resolutions questioning Israel's democracy. "Shall the state representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government to support the right of all people, including to non-Jewish Palestinian citizens of Israel, to live free from laws that give more rights to one people of one religion than another?" says the ballot question proposed in at least four localities by a group called Mass. Residents for International Human Rights, the Associated Press reported this week. Two localities approved the ballot questions last ...
Swedish Dockworkers Boycott Israeli Ships
Post Date: 2010-06-24 13:41:30 by Brian S
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(JTA) -- Swedish dockworkers have begun a boycott of Israeli ships. The boycott, which began at midnight Tuesday night and is scheduled to last for one week, covers all of Sweden's ports. The 1,500 members of the Swedish Port Workers voted earlier this month to approve the boycott in protest of Israel's interception last month of a Gaza-bound flotilla in which nine activists were killed, as well as to protest Israel's blockade of Gaza. Eleven Swedish citizens were aboard the flotilla. On the first day of the boycott, dockworkers refused to handle about a dozen cargo containers at a southwestern port. Israel ships fruit, vegetables, spices and skin care products to Sweden. ...
Israeli Leaders Sued In Belgium For War Crimes
Post Date: 2010-06-24 13:40:02 by Brian S
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PARIS (JTA) -- A complaint was filed in Belgian court against 14 Israeli leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak were among those charged with war crimes committed during the Gaza war in the winter of 2008-09, the French daily Le Monde reported. Former Gen. Matan Vilnai and other Israeli army leaders, politicians and intelligence officials also were included on the list. Two lawyers representing 13 family members of victims of an Israeli army bombing of a mosque near the Jabaliya refugee camp during the war said they filed their complaints Wednesday in Brussels, according ...
Speaking of hyperventilating
Post Date: 2010-06-24 12:42:38 by Badeye
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Speaking of hyperventilating MARK STEYN: In his scathing attacks on Fox News, Don Newman sounds a bit bombastic himself by Mark Steyn on Thursday, June 24, 2010 8:46am - 26 Comments Nicholas Roberts/The New York Times Fox News? Oh, c’mon, everyone knows it’s a “minaret for America First prejudice” and “hyperventilated extremism” “screeching to the converted” with “the none-too-bright persona of the schoolyard bully.” So says Christopher Dornan, director of something called the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs at Carleton University, writing in the Toronto Star. Naturally, the news that Quebecor is planning a Fox of the North has ...
Youths Attack Jewish Dance Group In Germany
Post Date: 2010-06-24 11:35:15 by Brian S
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BERLIN (AP) -- Arab youths threw stones at a Jewish dance group during a street festival in Hannover, injuring one dancer and forcing the group to cancel its performance, German police and dance officials said Thursday. The teenagers also used a megaphone to shout anti-Semitic slurs during the attack Saturday, Hannover police spokesman Thorsten Schiewe said. "I don't remember such a dramatic attack in Germany in recent times," said Michael Fuerst, the head of the Jewish community of the state of Lower Saxony. Six suspects have been identified - five Arabic immigrants and one German - and police are looking for the other three, police said. The six range from nine to 19 ...
Moms of hikers held nearly 1 year in Iran shocked by report that children arrested in Iraq
Post Date: 2010-06-24 09:42:26 by Badeye
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Moms of hikers held nearly 1 year in Iran shocked by report that children arrested in Iraq Published June 24, 2010 AP May 20: The mothers of 3 Americans detained in Iran hug their children at the Esteghlal hotel in Tehran. MINNEAPOLIS MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The mothers of three American hikers held in Iran on suspicion of espionage said Thursday they hope a report that their children were arrested on the Iraqi side of the border will help lead to their release. Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal were arrested July 31 during what their families have said was a simple hiking trip along the Iraq-Iran border. They have said if the hikers crossed into Iran it was an accident. The ...
Netanyahu: Pollard Acted As Israeli Agent
Post Date: 2010-06-23 13:05:30 by Brian S
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Jonathan Pollard acted as an agent of the State of Israel, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, in reaction to a comment from Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren that was interpreted as suggesting otherwise.Pollard is in the 25th year of a life sentence for passing classified information to an ally. While Israel initially made a point of distancing itself from him, the government, in May 1998, during Netanyahu’s first term, formally recognized him as an Israeli agent.RELATED:Fallen major's widow pleads for Pollard, not for homeOren appeared to backtrack from this stance in an interview with Washington radio station WTOP that was interpreted by American and Israeli ...
Iran Says It Triples Stockpile of 20 Percent-Enriched Uranium
Post Date: 2010-06-23 11:46:18 by Brian S
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June 23 (Bloomberg) -- Iran said it now has 17 kilograms of 20 percent-enriched uranium, more than triple the amount that United Nations nuclear inspectors found there in April. “We can potentially produce 5 kilograms (11 pounds) a month, but we are not in a rush,” Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi, who heads Iran’s atomic agency, was cited as saying today by the state-run Iranian Students News Agency. “Iran can enrich to any percentage it wants as its legitimate right.” By September 2011, Iran will begin operating a plant to convert its 20 percent uranium into fuel to run a Tehran reactor that produces medical isotopes, Salehi said. Under a proposed international ...
Wikileaks plans to release files about deadly U.S. airstrike on Afghan civilians
Post Date: 2010-06-23 00:17:27 by Brian S
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Wikileaks.org plans to release as soon as this week documents related to a U.S. airstrike that killed Afghan civilians last year and plans to release combat footage of the incident this summer, the founder of the whistleblower site said in an interview Monday. Julian Assange said the documents pertain to an attack near the Afghan village of Garani, which killed scores of civilians in May 2009 In April, Wikileaks released video footage of a U.S. Apache helicopter attack in Iraq that killed several civilians, including two employees of the Reuters news service. The release catapulted Wikileaks into global headlines and sparked debate over a site that aims to uncover government and corporate ...
Father, son plead guilty in 'honor killing' of daughter in Canada
Post Date: 2010-06-22 20:35:06 by WhiteSands
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OTTAWA — The father and brother of a 16-year-old girl pleaded guilty in a Toronto courthouse to her 2007 murder for disobeying him, including refusing to wear a hijab, a court official said Wednesday. Toronto taxi-driver Muhammad Parvez, 60, and tow-truck driver Waqas Parvez, 29, pleaded guilty to the murder of Aqsa Parvez in late 2007, and are to be sentenced to life in prison. They must serve at least 18 years in prison before being eligible for parole, an Ontario Superior Court official told AFP. According to a statement of agreed facts, Aqsa was estranged from her family when her brother picked her up from a school bus stop in a Toronto suburb and took her home on December 10, 20 ...
Pakistani PM Ignores US Warning On Iran Gas Deal
Post Date: 2010-06-22 12:17:56 by Brian S
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ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Defying a warning from Washington, Pakistan's prime minister promised Tuesday to go ahead with a plan to import natural gas from Iran even if the U.S. levies additional sanctions against the Mideast country. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's comments came two days after the U.S. special envoy to Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, cautioned Pakistan not to "overcommit" itself to the deal because it could run afoul of new sanctions against Iran being finalized by Congress. The deal has been a constant source of tension between the two countries, with Pakistan arguing that it is vital to its ability to cope with an energy crisis and the U.S. stressing that it ...
Jimmy Carter Worries Court Ruling May Affect His Interaction With Terror Groups
Post Date: 2010-06-22 09:41:07 by Badeye
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Jimmy Carter Worries Court Ruling May Affect His Interaction With Terror Groups Tuesday, June 22, 2010 By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor Former President Jimmy Carter visiting Lebanon during the country’s national elections in June 2009. (AP Photo)(CNSNews.com) – Former President Jimmy Carter has voiced concern that Monday’s Supreme Court ruling on “material support” to terrorist groups may criminalize his “work to promote peace and freedom.” Carter, whose advocacy has entailed contact with groups designated by the U.S. government as “foreign terrorist organizations” (FTOs) – notably Hamas and Hezbollah – said he was ...
Obama Helps Soros Drill For Oil In Brazil
Post Date: 2010-06-21 20:23:17 by WhiteSands
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The U.S. government is prepared to provide up to $10 billion in loans to finance the development of massive hydrocarbon reserves off Brazil’s coast, a Brazilian official said Wednesday. President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, Gen. James Jones, discussed the matter with officials this week during a visit to the South American country, Brazilian Planning Minister Paulo Bernardo da Silva told reporters. He said the U.S. Export-Import Bank already has signed a letter of intent in that regard with Brazilian state oil company Petrobras. The loan is equal in value to a similar credit line agreed to with the China Development Bank, also for exploiting Brazil’s ...
Brazil sees silver lining in BP spill: more rigs
Post Date: 2010-06-21 20:17:51 by WhiteSands
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RIO DE JANEIRO, June 11 (Reuters) - Brazil could benefit from the BP Gulf of Mexico spill as a U.S. moratorium on offshore drilling boosts available rigs for the country's deep water oil exploration program. Even as an ecological catastrophe makes the future of U.S. offshore drilling less certain, Brazil is plowing ahead with a $220 billion five-year plan to tap oil fields even deeper than BP's (BP.L) ill-fated Gulf well, which is still leaking crude. With an estimated 35 rigs idled in the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil is already receiving inquiries from companies looking to move their rigs here, where vast discoveries in recent years may soon turn the country into a major crude ...
Turkey Suspends Bilateral Agreements With Israel
Post Date: 2010-06-21 16:38:25 by Brian S
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(JTA) -- Turkey's prime minister has shelved 16 bilateral agreements with Israel, Turkey's daily Zaman reported. Citing Israel's failure to apologize or offer compensation for killing nine Turks aboard the Mavi Marmara ship on May 31, in Israel's raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suspended the defense agreements. The Turkish Cabinet is also attempting to turn the European Union against Israel, Zama reported. Meanwhile, in the United States, several high-profile congressmen have warned Turkey against taking a harsh line on Israel. "There will be a cost if Turkey stays on its present heading of growing more antagonistic to ...
Abnormal Radiation Detected Near Border, But SKorea Says NKorea Did Not Conduct Nuclear Test
Post Date: 2010-06-21 11:31:18 by Brian S
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By: Hyung-Jin Kim, The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea - Abnormally high radiation levels were detected near the border between the two Koreas days after North Korea claimed to have mastered a complex technology key to manufacturing a hydrogen bomb, Seoul said Monday. The Science Ministry said its investigation ruled out a nuclear test by North Korea, but failed to determine the source of the radiation. It said there was no evidence of an earthquake, which follows an atomic explosion. On May 12, North Korea claimed its scientists succeeded in creating a nuclear fusion reaction — a technology necessary to manufacture a hydrogen bomb. In its announcement, the North did not say how ...
Al Qaeda spokesman calls Obama 'snakelike' in new video
Post Date: 2010-06-21 09:30:07 by Badeye
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Al Qaeda spokesman calls Obama 'snakelike' in new video Posted: June 20th, 2010 11:29 AM ET In the video American-born al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn criticizes what he says is the United States' 'aggression and interference' in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. (CNN) - American-born al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn appears in a new video purportedly from the organization, calling President Barack Obama "snakelike" and saying he is "running the affairs of a declining and besieged empire." In the video, posted Sunday on Islamist websites, Gadahn criticizes what he says is the United States' "aggression and interference" in ...
China Backs Obama With U.S. Treasury Securities Rising 3% to $900 Billion
Post Date: 2010-06-20 19:56:05 by Brian S
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A year after criticizing U.S. fiscal policy as “irresponsible,” China’s leaders are showing increasing confidence in President Barack Obama’s leadership of the American economy. China boosted holdings of Treasury notes and bonds by 2.6 percent to $900.2 billion in March and April, after reducing its stake by 6.5 percent from November through February, the longest consecutive monthly declines in a decade, U.S. data released June 15 showed. The People’s Bank of China said June 19 that it will relax its 23-month lock on the yuan. U.S. Senator Charles Schumer and Congressional leaders say the new foreign-exchange policy doesn’t go far enough to keep them from ...
Protesters At Port Of Oakland Picket Israeli Ship
Post Date: 2010-06-20 19:46:49 by Brian S
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Hundreds of protesters condemning Israel's recent raid on an international flotilla bound for Gaza are picketing at the Port of Oakland, where an Israeli ship is due to arrive. The demonstrators gathered Sunday to prevent the incoming ship from being unloaded. The dock's day shift of longshoremen agreed to not cross the picket line. Meanwhile Sunday, Israel said it will immediately allow all goods into Gaza except weapons and items deemed to have a military use under its decision to ease its three-year-old blockade of the Palestinian territory. Israeli officials had decided last week to ease the blockade under intense international pressure after the raid ...
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