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South African Doctor Invents Female Condoms With 'Teeth' To Fight Rape
Post Date: 2010-06-20 11:59:00 by Brian S
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(CNN) -- South African Dr. Sonnet Ehlers was on call one night four decades ago when a devastated rape victim walked in. Her eyes were lifeless; she was like a breathing corpse. "She looked at me and said, 'If only had teeth down there,'" recalled Ehlers, who was a 20-year-old medical researcher at the time. "I promised her I'd do something to help people like her one day." Forty years later, Rape-aXe was born. Ehlers is distributing the female condoms in the various South African cities where the World Cup soccer games are taking place. The woman inserts the latex condom like a tampon. Jagged rows of teeth-like hooks line its inside and attach on a ...
Humanitarian and basketball star Manute Bol dies
Post Date: 2010-06-19 15:28:19 by Fred Mertz
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Manute Bol, the tallest player in NBA history during his 10 seasons, has died, his friend Tom Prichard told The Star today. Bol, who had a home in Olathe, died this morning at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. He was fighting acute kidney failure and a skin disease he contracted while trying to help his native Sudan. He was 47. He spent his entire basketball fortune and survived attacks on his life to save and improve lives in and around Sudan. He lost hundreds of family members in an ongoing war but saved or educated at least that many with peacemaking efforts. Sudan Sunrise, a charity Bol has worked with, said: "Sudan and the world have lost a hero and ...
GORDON DUFF: ISRAEL PLANNED IRAN ATTACK FROM CAUCASUS BASE
Post Date: 2010-06-19 10:39:39 by mininggold
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GORDON DUFF: ISRAEL PLANNED IRAN ATTACK FROM CAUCASUS BASE SAUDI AIR SPACE THREAT DISINFORMATION FAILED TURKEY RUSE VITAL FOR STAGING SNEAK ATTACK By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor A week ago, Israel leaked to the press that they had permission from Saudi Arabia to use their air space to attack Iran. The Saudi’s quickly denied this. The effort on Israel’s part was a ruse to cover their real plans, to attack from the Republic of Georgia, close to Iran’s northern border. However, the breakdown in relations with Turkey after miscalculating the response to their Flotilla raid on a Turkish ship in international waters may have ended this operation. Israel, whose ...
Italian priest charged with molesting youngsters
Post Date: 2010-06-19 02:02:42 by WhiteSands
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Pierino Gelmini, 85, is alleged to have abused 12 young people at a drug rehabilitation centre he had founded. He denies the charges. Mr Gelmini left the priesthood two years ago to defend himself. The Comunita Incontro, which runs drug rehabilitation centres worldwide, has enjoyed the support of powerful figures in Italian politics. In 2005, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gave $6m (£4m) to his organisation. Mr Gelmini set up the Communita Incontro in 1963 in the Umbrian town of Amelia. It has more than 200 centres in Italy - and others in France, Spain, the US, Brazil and Thailand. The allegations against him surfaced in 2008 when nine young men said he had sexually abused ...
Organizer Of German Jewish Flotilla: We Aren't Betraying Israel; German Jewish Voice Organization Plans To Send An Aid Ship To Break The israeli Blockade Of Gaza
Post Date: 2010-06-19 01:42:39 by Brian S
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An organization of German Jews that wants to send an aid ship to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza says that its intentions are no betrayal of the Jewish people. In an interview with the German Press Agency dpa in Berlin, Kate Katzenstein-Leiterer, a leader of the German Jewish Voice organization said instead that they wanted to help preserve the state of Israel by showing that its current policies were wrong. "We want Israel to behave in a way that it can be recognized as a democratic state. Now it is recognized as a criminal state. That is not what we want," she said. On May 31 nine people were killed when Israeli naval forces boarded ships in a flotilla carrying aid and ...
N. Korea lifts restrictions on private markets as last resort in food crisis
Post Date: 2010-06-19 01:10:45 by WhiteSands
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Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, June 18, 2010; 4:27 PM SEOUL -- Bowing to reality, the North Korean government has lifted all restrictions on private markets -- a last-resort option for a leadership desperate to prevent its people from starving. This Story * N. Korea lifts restrictions on private markets as last resort in food crisis * U.S. conflicted on joining S. Korean military exercise In recent weeks, according to North Korea observers and defector groups with sources in the country, Kim Jong Il's government admitted its inability to solve the current food shortage and encouraged its people to rely on private markets for the purchase of goods. Though the policy reversal ...
Nations Offer Gulf Oil Cleanup Aid, With Strings — They Want To Get Paid For Their Generosity
Post Date: 2010-06-18 15:58:22 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — At least 22 nations — including Britain, where BP is based — have offered oil-collecting skimmers, boom, technical experts and more to help the U.S. cope with its worst-ever environmental disaster. But their generosity comes with a price tag. The State Department confirmed that nearly every offer of equipment or expertise from a foreign government since the April 20 oil rig explosion would require the U.S. to reimburse that country. The offers reveal a hard truth about the United States' international friendships: With the U.S. widely regarded as the world's wealthiest nation, there is a double standard regarding foreign aid after a crisis, especially ...
As US And EU Slap On More Iran Sanctions, Russia Is Miffed
Post Date: 2010-06-18 12:26:23 by Brian S
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The European Union followed the United States in approving its own tougher sanctions on Iran Thursday, targeting Iran’s oil and gas industry a day after the US Treasury slapped new restrictions on a number of Iranian banks, companies, and members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. But the EU and US measures, which go beyond the new sanctions approved by the United Nations Security Council last week, drew a blast of condemnation from Russia, which said the separate measures undermine the major powers’ joint effort to influence Tehran over its nuclear program. In a statement calling the US and EU actions “unacceptable,” the Russian Foreign Ministry criticized the ...
Putin Boasts New Jet Fighter Better Than U.S. Plane
Post Date: 2010-06-18 12:17:18 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin climbed into the cockpit of Russia's newest fighter jet on Thursday and said it would trump a U.S.-built rival, the F-22 Raptor. Putin watched a test flight of a "fifth-generation" stealth fighter, dubbed the T-50 and billed as Russia's first all-new warplane since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. "This machine will be superior to our main competitor, the F-22, in terms of maneuverability, weaponry and range," Putin told the pilot after the flight, according to an account on the government website. Putin said the plane would cost up to three times less than similar aircraft in the West and could remain in ...
Elton John Aside, Israelis Feel Growing Isolation
Post Date: 2010-06-18 12:11:39 by Brian S
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Pounding his piano in blue-tinted sunglasses before nearly 50,000 screaming fans, Elton John took center stage in a battle over Israel's image. The legendary British rocker's concert on Thursday night followed a string of cancellations by artists like Elvis Costello and the Pixies. Resisting a growing wave of calls from pro-Palestinian activists to boycott the Jewish state, John gave Israelis a rare reason to smile amid their increasing sense of international isolation. "Ain't gonna stop me from coming here, baby," he told the cheering crowd in Tel Aviv, saying he believed music should spread peace and bring people together: "That is ...
Russia Will Lead Effort to Found `New World Economic Order,' Medvedev Says
Post Date: 2010-06-18 11:51:17 by Brian S
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June 18 (Bloomberg) -- Russia will help lead efforts to recast the global economic hierarchy as the world emerges from the financial crisis, President Dmitry Medvedev said. “We really live at a unique time, and we should use it to build a modern, prosperous and strong Russia, a Russia that will be a co-founder of the new world economic order,” Medvedev said at the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum today. Russia will use tax incentives and other free-market economic policies to turn the country into a destination for innovators from around the world, Medvedev told an audience including Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit and French Finance ...
Obama more popular in Europe than at home: poll
Post Date: 2010-06-18 00:17:16 by WhiteSands
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WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama gets a more favorable rating in western Europe and Asia than at home, but his standing in the Muslim world is slipping, a global poll showed Thursday. The Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project found that overall opinion of Obama remains broadly positive in most non-Muslim nations. The survey of 24,000 people in 22 nations conducted April 7 to May 8 showed a largely favorable view of the United States for a second year, in sharp contrast to perceptions of America under former president George W. Bush. When asked whether the US president would "do the right thing" in world affairs, 87 percent in France, 90 percent in ...
Europe Could Face Hundreds Of Iranian Missiles: Gates
Post Date: 2010-06-18 00:14:57 by WhiteSands
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence showing Iran likely would have the capability to attack Europe with "scores or even hundreds" of missiles factored into the Obama administration's decision to overhaul missile defenses, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday. Citing the growing Iranian missile threat, the United States announced plans last September to integrate sea- and land-based missile defenses in and around its NATO allies in Europe, referred to as the "phased adaptive approach." "One of the elements of the intelligence that contributed to the decision on the phased adaptive array (approach) was the realization that if Iran were actually ...
Obama's ratings ebb in Muslim world [ Of 22 nations polled, in only three, France, Nigeria and Kenya, did the majority of respondents support his approach.]
Post Date: 2010-06-17 23:21:57 by WhiteSands
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Reporting from Washington — Confidence in President Obama among the world's Muslims is slipping, according to a poll of global attitudes that also found widespread concern that the United States remains a go-it-alone nation even under the new administration. The survey, by the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project, found support for Obama strong in most nations, even as his rating at home has slipped. But in five of seven Muslim-majority nations that were polled, his popularity slid over the last year, winning approval ratings from about one-third or less of respondents. The finding will probably be of concern to the White House, which has worked to improve the ...
Suddenly, The israel Lobby Discovers A Genocide
Post Date: 2010-06-17 19:40:21 by Brian S
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Former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey, one of the drivers of the Tea Party movement, is suggesting that Republican political candidates should shy away from the "Tea Party" label to avoid harsher scrutiny. Armey's conservative nonprofit group FreedomWorks has facilitated Tea Party activists with guidance and resources, allowing for the growth of the movement that supports candidates like Kentucky's GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul and Nevada's GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle. But Paul's and Angle's association with the Tea Party could be making their campaigns harder, Armey said, according to Politico. "Don't ask for more of what you ...
Up to 70 feared dead in Colombian mine blast
Post Date: 2010-06-17 14:47:10 by WhiteSands
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Sixteen are killed in what could be one of country's worst mining accidents AMAGA, Colombia - More than 70 Colombian miners were trapped and feared dead Thursday in an overnight coal mine explosion that killed at least 16 miners in what could be one of the country's worst mining accidents. The gas explosion occurred just after midnight at the San Fernando mine in Amaga town in northwestern Antioquia province, far from the major coal operations run by large companies such as Drummond and Glencore near the Caribbean coast. Shocked relatives sobbed and hugged each other waiting for news and anxiously pressed rescue workers for details as hearses ferried bodies from the wreckage of ...
Prosecutors Open Investigation Into Demjanjuk Witness That Defence Accuses Of Perjury
Post Date: 2010-06-17 11:51:22 by Brian S
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MUNICH - Munich prosecutors said Thursday they have opened an investigation into a former U.S. Secret Service forensics expert who testified at the John Demjanjuk trial following a motion from the defence accusing the witness of perjury. Trial prosecutor Hans-Joachim Lutz told The Associated Press that his office was obliged to open the investigation against former agent Larry Stewart, who testified in Munich last week, after defence attorney Ulrich Busch filed a complaint with the court accusing him of perjury. Busch argued Stewart's Munich testimony contradicted statements he had made in U.S. District Court in Ohio in 2001 — the year after he examined documents being used as ...
Obama bullies BP into Ł13.5bn fund for oil spill victims... but British pensioners will pick up the bill
Post Date: 2010-06-17 10:20:38 by Badeye
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Obama bullies BP into £13.5bn fund for oil spill victims... but British pensioners will pick up the billBy David Gardner Last updated at 10:17 AM on 17th June 2010 Comments (742) Videos Add to My Stories British oil giant forced to suspend paying any dividends until 2011 But BP shares rally this morning as news helps cool uncertainties CEO Tony Hayward to be 'sliced and diced' at Congressional hearing today Siphoned oil is burned off at sea in latest bid to staunch spill The crisis engulfing BP has plumbed new depths as President Obama bullied the company into depositing £13.5billion into a fund to settle compensation claims for the calamitous Gulf of Mexico oil ...
'Bush Did It' Is Not a Foreign Policy
Post Date: 2010-06-17 09:26:16 by no gnu taxes
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Not being George W. Bush while apologizing for America's purported sins is not a foreign policy Ronald Reagan came into office with the idea of rolling back the Soviet Union. Reagan hoped that such an evil empire might collapse from its inability to match a newly confident United States. George H.W. Bush sought to oversee a peaceful dissolution of the Soviet empire, the reunification of Germany, and a new Western-led world order that thugs such as Manuel Noriega or Saddam Hussein could not disrupt. Bill Clinton pushed Western-inspired liberal globalization to lift the Third World out of poverty. After 9/11, George W. Bush sought to keep America safe from another round of Islamic ...
CHANGE! 53 Days Later Obama Administration Decides to Accept Dutch Offer to Help With Spill
Post Date: 2010-06-17 01:40:53 by WhiteSands
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CHANGE! 53 Days Later Obama Administration Decides to Accept Dutch Offer to Help With Spill by Jim Hoft Remember: The Gulf Oil Spill Is Like 9-11 Three days after the Gulf oil rig explosion, the Netherlands offered to send in oil skimmers to pump oil off of the surface of the ocean. The Obama Administration turned them down because they were not 100% efficient and small amounts of oil would be pumped back into the Gulf with the excess water. EPA regulations do not allow for residue water to contain any oil. So rather than use equipment that was not 100% efficient the Obama Administration chose to let all of the oil run into the Gulf. This is not just bad policy, it is criminal. Since ...
Saudi Arabia: We Will Not Give Israel Air Corridor For Iran Strike
Post Date: 2010-06-16 20:37:24 by Brian S
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Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf refutes Times of London report saying Saudi Arabia practiced standing down its anti-aircraft systems to allow an Israeli bomb run. By Haaretz Service Tags: Israel news Iran nuclear Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia would not allow Israeli bombers to pass through its airspace en route to a possible strike of Iran's nuclear facilities, a member of the Saudi royal family said Saturday, denying an earlier Times of London report. Earlier Saturday, the Times reported that Saudi Arabia has practiced standing down its anti-aircraft systems to allow Israeli warplanes passage on their way to attack Iran's nuclear installations, adding that the ...
Castro: Swastika Has Become Israel's Banner
Post Date: 2010-06-16 20:34:48 by Brian S
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Former Cuban President Fidel Castro slammed Israel on Friday and compared its policies to those of Nazi Germany. He said Israel seems to have taken the swastika as its banner, and that it would "not hesitate" to send the 1.5 million Palestinians living in Gaza to "crematoriums". The former communist leader published an article in local press in which he said, "The State of Israel's hatred towards the Palestinians is such that it would not hesitate to send 1.5 million men, women and children to the crematoriums in which millions of Jews of all ages were killed." Israeli has recently come under harsh criticism from many countries around the world over its ...
Israel And The U.S. Ruling On War Crimes
Post Date: 2010-06-16 20:29:29 by Brian S
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A recent ruling effectively revokes immunity for foreign officials living in the United States for crimes committed in their home countries. It could put Israelis in the dock. By Haggai Carmon The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, not all former foreign officials living in the United States can claim immunity from prosecution in U.S. Courts. Its decision could have an immediate impact on Israelis. 'Sovereign immunity' offers states protection from lawsuits in another country's courts, based on the principle that disputes between nations should be resolved by diplomacy, not litigation. Victims of the Somali regime recently ...
French flash floods kill 20
Post Date: 2010-06-16 16:59:49 by WhiteSands
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Paris, France (CNN) -- Flash floods killed at least 20 people in the southern French region of Var, French authorities said Wednesday. The flooding began Tuesday, and more storms were expected Wednesday evening, the Var prefecture said in a statement. Authorities warned of "possible intense rain and thunderstorms, sometimes violent in the coastal area." Eleven helicopters worked overnight to rescue people and 1,000 people have been placed in shelters, the prefecture said. Some 1,200 firefighters and 650 police officers were taking part in the rescue effort, it said. All schools in the region were closed Wednesday and more than 96,000 people were without electricity. ...
Pakistani Militancy Spreads To Country's Heartland
Post Date: 2010-06-16 13:33:29 by Brian S
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LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- At least two dozen militants once supported by the government have split off to lead one of Pakistan's newest and deadliest terrorist groups, working with al-Qaida at remote camps near the Afghan border to carry out attacks in the center of this U.S.-allied country, police say. The emergence of the network known as the Punjabi Taliban risks destabilizing Pakistan's political and military heartland. The group, named for Pakistan's most populous and richest province, is closely allied with the Pakistani Taliban, which the U.S. blames for last month's failed Times Square bombing. Pakistani police believe they are beginning to understand the network ...
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